Now faith is
Browsing early and opening email, I crossed the Facebook page of Trinity, Apalachicola and appreciated this post, which I lifted to add here.
It hits me just right, because my ongoing campaign is against the religious certitude that is so common in every religion and that has been the cause of religious wars throughout human history, actually even including within Christianity itself, confusing Faith - - which is defined scripturally - - confusing Faith with certainty, with knowledge.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1)
Faith is belief, faith is trust, faith is hope. Faith is hope in the face of uncertainty. A danger of being raised in a religion from birth is that we grow up holding it as absolute truth and everyone else's religion, even other Christian denominations, as contemptibly false. "We believe - - " opens our Creed. It does not begin "We know - - ".
Back to my little mantra, Just because you believe it, even believe it with every fibre of your being, that don't make it so. And again, the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.
A busy Friday ahead. Breakfast, salmon on whole grain bread with seeds, smear of mayonnaise, black coffee.
T
It hits me just right, because my ongoing campaign is against the religious certitude that is so common in every religion and that has been the cause of religious wars throughout human history, actually even including within Christianity itself, confusing Faith - - which is defined scripturally - - confusing Faith with certainty, with knowledge.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1)
Faith is belief, faith is trust, faith is hope. Faith is hope in the face of uncertainty. A danger of being raised in a religion from birth is that we grow up holding it as absolute truth and everyone else's religion, even other Christian denominations, as contemptibly false. "We believe - - " opens our Creed. It does not begin "We know - - ".
Back to my little mantra, Just because you believe it, even believe it with every fibre of your being, that don't make it so. And again, the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.
A busy Friday ahead. Breakfast, salmon on whole grain bread with seeds, smear of mayonnaise, black coffee.
T