Can you explain your faith in "god",  without quotes?
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To those who God loves, to them He gives faith in Him.  If this doesn't include you, then nothing anyone will say will matter.
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Having faith means you believe that life, truth, and goodness will have the last word. Not only *can* you rely on that in your day to day life, you *have* to. Why else would you be living? So you and the people you love can end up as worm food? So the whole planet will be swallowed by the sun in a few billion years? If faith isn't true, there is no truth and no meaning. Without faith, my life would be a charade. But with faith, the smallest gesture can be full of meaning.
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That is an interesting question dannythegr8, and you got me thinking.\n\nLet's start here...\nEphesians 2:8\nFor by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.\n\nJesus told the parable of the mustard seed, though it is the smallest of all seeds, if you have that much faith, you could move a mountain. So really, faith can be just a speck, but God will honor it. If you have zero faith, you will not pray at all. If you have a speck of faith, you can pray like the man who's son was possessed.\n\nMark 9:24\nImmediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”\n\nAnd God will meet you where you are at.
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Faith is our beliefs and our beliefs define our reality. Religion is a set of beliefs. Your life is your set of beliefs. Therefore, no, without faith your life can't have meaning. You would have nothing to believe in, no existence.
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John 6:29\nJesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."\n\nJames 2:\n14What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? 15Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. 16If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? 17In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. \n 18But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds." \n      Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do. \n\n 19You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. \n\n 20You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless[d]? 21Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 23And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,"[e] and he was called God's friend. 24You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone. \n\n 25In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? 26As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.\n\nMatt 25\n\n31"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. 32All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. \n 34"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.' \n\n 37"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?' \n\n 40"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.' \n\n 41"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.' \n\n 44"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?' \n\n 45"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.' \n\n 46"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."
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Well pardon me if I take the Bible's definition of faith...."Faith is the evidence of things not seen"
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If you have faith in God you don't need it in writing, don't think of God as a person like you and I think of him as a something far greater. It's thanks to how man has written the Bible that so many of us have lost the true path to God, if you read the Bible, and yes there is some truth there, you can see how man gains out of whats written, not God, but man.\nLove & Peace
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You are right not to believe in God.... because you haven't experienced God in your heart yet..... and imo, it's pretty ridiculous to believe without proof! \n\nDirect experience is the only thing that can leave us doubtless, and transform us. And blind faith is not faith! Don't look to others to answer your questions about God, faith.... and the hypocrisy of religious Christianity. Look within your heart: ONLY there you will find the answers: in truth, Love, goodness and (ime) God. \n\nYour heart knows what is from Love and what isn't: Trust it!!
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Faith alone will not save.\nFaith and Works, alone, will not save.\nFaith, Works, and God's Sanctifying Grace WILL save.\n\nThe idea that faith alone or faith and works alone will save is not true. Anyone who believes this has (inadvertently perhaps?) taken God out of the equation.\n\nFaith, Works, AND - most important of all - God's Sanctifying Grace is what saves. All the faith and works in the world, without God's Sanctifying Grace, will not save.\n\nIt might do well to tell anyone who believes in faith-alone or faith and works alone, not to forget what really saves : God's Sanctifying Grace.
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How many times can it be said... "I don't understand the cause ... therefore it must be God" is NOT an argument.\n\nIn any case, most of what you say is getting increasingly better understood. Somehow I don't think you'll click on the link below and read what's there... but here's hoping
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Hebrews.11:1 says "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."\n\nYou can't get a better definition than that. It means faith is real, its almost as if you can touch it (substance), yet it is not physical. It is based on hope which means it is in the future.\n\nIt is an evidence (proof) for what you have believed. \n\nFor example, you ask God for a child, you don't have the child yet, you are not even pregnant, you might not even have a womb or maybe your womb is damaged, but faith tells you you can have it(John.15:16), you can have it because God told you in His word you won't be barren (Exo.23:26, Isaiah.54:1-3), that he would heal you even if you were sick (Exo.15:26), that you will be fruitful (Gen.1:28). Believing so much in these words to the extent that if someone was to ask you where is the child you are believing God for? and you can present God's words to them as evidence that God will eventually answer you, that is faith.
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God wasn't created, He just always "was"....faith is the substance of things unknown, having faith is what it is all about =)
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What you describe is one passage "faith without works is dead" . . . which basically mean . . . "do it yourself, because I am not going to do anything for you, and if you fail . . . don't blame yourself . . . . blame me and say it is God's Will"
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People often revert to the "faith excuse" when they don't have the real answer at hand. But faith is also very necessary due to the fact that God didn't tell us everything we might like to know about him. For example, if God made all things, who made God? Nobody! God always existed. He's the first cause of everything. Now, that's hard to wrap a human brain around! I can tell you that most of the answers you're looking for are out there, readily available, if you know where to look for them. You won't find all of them in the Bible, either. It's complicated and it takes time, but you can arrive at the truth. Then you won't need nearly as much faith. For prompt, complete, accurate and free answers to your questions about God via email, go to www.AskMeAboutGod.Org
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I believe in God because I met him (in my heart).\n\nWhy wouldn't you ask God if He exists? There is 0% risk. Indeed : \n1. Either He does not exist, and then you will get no answer....\n2. Either He does exist, and He will show you, a way or another, that He exists and that He loves you.\n\nThen you would know how to "defend yourself".
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I like the spirit of your philosophy, but as to the exact wording, it seems backwards to me. Try this: We don't know how, but faith allows us to know that everything is going to work out, somehow. Faith is a way of knowing, we can not know everything, but we can understand almost everything if we know the subject matter. More and more facts are coming to light for us everyday that we live if we live in faith, with one small exception. Death always catches us flatfooted. Unless, we are very old and or very wise and courious, and ready to find out.
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These are not rules, just statements. As statements I do agree. God is, I am not He.\n\nAs for other replies, it is written: "Only a fool says there is no God." There has been a lot of fulfillment to that statement.