Reality of Faith

Faith is surrendering to someone your thoughts, your feelings, that you believe that something good will happen to you.. Faith is the presence of the spirit to cover you the strength, to help you to believe something will happen.

Faith is something you believe even though you have not seen it. It is written, " blessed are thos who believe yet haven't seen it. " You can do something with faith in your heart. Have faith and walk by it. Just a suggestion. God Bless

The Bible definition of faith is that one believes something that God said even though it has not happened yet. Much like when we say to someone I have faith in you. We have faith that they will do or able to do something. I Hebrews chapter eleven and verse one, after defining faith, it lists many Bible characters that showed faith in God such as Noah. He built the ark and prepared for a flood that was yet to come.

Thanks a ton for sharing this discussion. Well i have always believed that faith is something that we have not seen or have no adequate proofs but still we have lot of faith on it. I think there are many such instances in life. There are some things that have no proof at all but still we have faith on it and this is the real definition of faith. What say?

Oh I love this post because my nerdiness is about to shine forth. Actually, while that is a common understanding of the term, it isn't exactly universal. For example, many of the Biblical terms, have the concept of trust or support to them-the New Testament creedal statement "Jesus is Lord", is one not only of belief, but support toward that end (ie, "Jesus is my Lord and that has implications on how I live as His servant"). And interestingly, a Greek term commonly used in the New Testament "I know" (oida), is an example of a past tense verb having a present tense meaning (litereally, "I have seen"...and hence, "I know because I have seen"). In the Old Testament, Israel was to trust God, because of God's action in the Exodus...and in the New Testament, it is the Apostolic witness to the Risen Christ as experienced and proclaimed by the Apostles. You are correct, in that the writer of Hebrew uses the term in similar lines, but it is not in the sense of blind faith for no rational reason. However having said that... In another light, you are correct...because in reality to say "I know", in an aboslute term, isn't always true...like, sometimes people are simply mistaken...like, much of the world (infact, everyone of us), assumes certain things to be true, and may even speak of things that "everyone knows this!", when in fact sometimes those things, are not true. Like, so long ago people "knew" the world was flat...and a while ago, people "knew" the sun revolved around the earth etc...and in all those cases, we were wrong. In reality, there is very little about the world around us, or even our own lives, that we know in absolute terms.