Faith

“Fear and Faith both have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something that we cannot see.” - Joel Olsteen. It is strange how two concepts so different can have so much in common. Faith is simply a trust in something that you cannot see, while fear is an emotion caused by doubt or anxiety. As you can see, they are unable to coexist. Worry, anxiety and fear, can paralyze us, and even control what we do and how we see the world. Once we put our faith in God, we will no longer have…

and I was friends with a pastor, but I had so many questions and I was very uncertain about the church. So much of the book resonated with me, I especially liked his ideas about memory, community, and perseverance are so important when it comes to faith and to keep it going and to keep it strong, because it is all so true! Without memory, we wouldn’t know or remember anything about…

Elephant that is God If you asked any devout Christian or Atheist, to define the meaning of faith, they would give you completely different answers. The Christian might define faith as an unwavering belief in mankind’s salvation through Christ’s sacrifice, whereas the Atheist might say that it is an unwavering belief in something that can never be proved. Regardless of what one may have faith in, faith is not something that is easily discovered. Certainty and doubt constantly contradict one…

praises the strength she has in her faith and compares her faith to his own, which he finds to be lacking. “Nor such thoughts / Dim and unhallowed dost thou not reject, / And biddest me walk humbly with my God” (line 50-52). Sara scolds the speaker for being “spiritually unredeemed”, as the footnote states. The speaker is thankful that Sara scolded him for the “shapings of his unregenerate mind” (55). The speaker is thinking about God and trying to have faith, but perhaps not in a serious…

Tillich discuses concerns and how an ultimate concern is different, as well how the ultimate concern starts effecting one’s life. Tillich talks about the concept of faith as ultimate concern and how this correlates to God and the faith that is typically found in a church. Tillich discusses how we as human beings often possess many concerns, and some of which could even be considered spiritual in nature or moral visual, cognitive, or even political. These are concerns that are among those that…

perspective of interaction between the Christian faith and secular society. Someone posed the question, “Why is it okay for games to go into overtime, but if church goes over, then it is not?” Someone replied by saying, “Because they operate in entirely different spheres of our culture. Apples and oranges here, bud.” Such a response represents how reformational frameworks like sphere sovereignty can be misconstrued into a dissonance between faith and secular society. However, the opposite issue…

different types; simple fideism is most often believed among the common people because they believe that faith is enough, and sophisticated fideism is when critical thinkers contact other philosophers and theologists and try to persuade them that faith takes precedence over philosophy and reason. No matter the stance that is taken, this position has many…

Everything can change in the blink of an eye. That’s what happened to football player, Eric LeGrand. In the blink of an eye, he was no longer able to move any muscle below his neck. When he went in for a tackle on Michael Brown, his head collided with Brown’s left shoulder, causing him to fracture his C3 and C5 vertebrae. Consequently, LeGrand became paralyzed and lost all feeling below his neck. According to the doctors, he had a zero to five percent chance of regaining neurological function.…

In modern society, science, logic, and reason live side-by-side with religious faith. People today have come to terms with scientific facts and what their religion tells them. But was the divide between scientific thinking and blind faith always so clear? Thousands of years ago, the darkness of the Middle Ages in Europe gave light to an age of knowledge and enlightenment, when faith took the backseat to scientific and logical thinking. This new age didn’t just take place immediately, however.…

Religion, faith, and belief are used interchangeably; yet are meant to express three very different ideas. Religion is the belief in a divine superhuman power or principle, such as the creator of all things. Faith, however, is belief without evidence and belief is the acceptance of something as true or actual. Acceptance is the key to the words faith and belief. To have faith in something you must first believe it and accept it. Everyone has faith and belief, but not everyone believes in a…