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"New beliefs seldom win acceptance unless they are
nearer to the truth than what they replace." -
Bertrand Russell
"The human
understanding resembles
not a dry light, but resembles a tincture of the will and passions, which
generate their own system accordingly: for man
always believes more readily that which he prefers ... In short, his
feelings imbue and corrupt his
understanding in
innumerable and sometimes imperceptible ways." - Francis Bacon
To credit
with veracity.
To accept as true or
real.
To have an opinion; think.
To
expect or suppose; think.
To have
faith, confidence, or
trust.
To have firm faith,
especially religious
faith.
To have confidence
in the truth or value of some
thing.
To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of
another; to be persuaded of the
truth of, upon evidence furnished by
reason, argument, and
deduction of the
mind, or by circumstances
other than personal
knowledge; to regard or accept as
true; to place confidence in; to
think; to consider; as, to believe a
individual, a statement, or a
doctrine.
The
thing believed.
Judge or
regard; look upon.
A persuasion of the truths
of religion;
faith.
Follow a
creed; have a religious
faith; be a believer.
The mental
act, condition, or habit of
placing trust or confidence in
another.
A tenet, or the
body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of opinion; doctrine;
creed.
The mind's
acceptance of and conviction
in the truth, actuality, or validity of some
thing.
Some
thing believed or
accepted as true, especially a particular
tenet or a body of tenets
accepted by a group of individuals.
Assent to a
proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of knowledge, opinion,
theory, or assertion as real or true,
without immediate personal
knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance
without positive
knowledge or
absolute certainty; persuasion;
conviction; confidence; as,
belief of a witness; the belief of our
senses.
Suspension of belief.
No
belief.
"We are born
believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree
bears apples." - Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"People of faith believe for the same reason a
person holds to any worldview - it makes sense of a wider range of our deepest
experiences. The view that religion is ultimately grounded in fear is just as
much an article of "faith" as any. And less cogent, for it fails to consider
the possibility that faith appeals not to our weaknesses but to our strengths,
that believers believe not because their fears are soothed but because, like
hearing a great piece of music, they have been awakened, emboldened, "surprised
by joy." - Stanley R. Moore
Faith is defined as:
A
set of principles or beliefs.
The body of dogma of a religion.
Loyalty to an
individual or
thing; allegiance.
Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material
evidence.
Strong belief in a
supernatural power or powers that
control human
destiny.
Fidelity
to one's promises, or allegiance to duty, or to an
individual
honored and beloved; loyalty.
Confident belief in the truth,
value, or trustworthiness of an
individual,
idea, or thing.
The theological virtue defined
as secure belief in God and a
trusting acceptance of
God's will .
Belief; the assent of the mind to
the truth of what is declared by
another, resting solely and
implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on testimony.
The
assent of the mind to the statement or proposition of
another, on the basis of the
manifest truth of what is uttered;
firm and earnest belief, on
probable evidence of any category, especially in regard to
important moral truth.
The belief in the
facts and truth of
the Scriptures, with a practical love of them;
especially, that confiding and affectionate
belief in the individual and
work of Jesus, which affects the character and
life, and makes an
individual a
true Christian.
In general the persuasion of
the mind that a certain statement is
true (Phil. 1:27; 2 Thess. 2:13). Its primary
idea is trust. A
thing is true, and
therefore worthy of trust. It admits of many
degrees up to full assurance of faith, in accordance with the
evidence on which it rests. Faith
is the result of teaching (Rom.
10:14-17).
Knowledge is an
essential element in
all faith, and is sometimes spoken
of as an equivalent to faith (John
10:38; 1 John 2:3).A moral
act, as it proceeds from a
renewed
will, and a
renewed
will is necessary to
believing assent to the truth
of God (1 Cor. 2:14; 2 Cor. 4:4).
Faith, therefore, has its seat in
the moral part of our
nature fully as much as in the
intellectual. The
mind must first be enlightened by divine
teaching (John 6:44; Acts 13:48; 2
Cor. 4:6; Eph. 1:17, 18) before it can discern the things of the spirit.
"The leap of faith is
really a very ordinary operation. We take it every time we fall in
love, expect kindness from someone in return for a good
deed, impulsively sacrifice some little piece of our
self-interest. After all, you cannot
prove the existence of truth, beauty,
goodness and decency; you cannot prove the dignity of
being human, or your obligation to treat people fairly. You take a gamble on
the existence of these inestimable things. For
that reason, when you lay scientific, logical and empirical siege to the leap of faith at the
core of the religious impulse, you are not just attacking faith in God: You are
attacking the act of faith itself, faith in anything that can't be proved. But
it just so happens that the qualities that make life rich, joyful and humane
cannot be proved." - Lee Siegel
Maimonides (Rambam)13 principles of
faith1. The existence of God
2. God's unity
3. God's
spirituality and incorporeality
4. God's eternity
5. God alone is to be
the object of worship
6. Revelation through God's prophets
7. The
preeminence of Moses among the prophets
8. God's law given on Mount Sinai
to Moses
9. The immutability of the Torah as God's Law
10. God's
foreknowledge of human actions
11. Reward of good and retribution of evil
12. The coming of the Jewish Messiah
13. The resurrection of the dead
Orthodox Judaism adheres to a relatively strict
interpretation and application of the
laws first canonized in the
Talmudic texts and as subsequently
developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim,
and Acharonim. Orthodox Judaism is characterized by belief that the Torah and its laws are Divine, were
transmitted by God to Moses, are eternal, and are unalterable; belief that
there is also an oral law in Judaism, which contains the authoritative
interpretation of the written Torah's legal sections, and is also Divine by
virtue of having been transmitted in some form by God to Moses along with the
Written Law, as embodied in the Talmud, Midrash, and innumerable related texts,
all intrinsically and inherently entwined with the written law of the Torah;
belief that God has made an exclusive, unbreakable covenant with the Children
of Israel to be governed by the Torah; adherence to Halakha, or Jewish law,
including acceptance of codes, mainly the Shulchan Aruch, as authoritative
practical guidance in application of both the written and oral laws, as well as
acceptance of halakha-following Rabbis as authoritative interpreters and judges
of Jewish law; belief in Jewish eschatology. Orthodox beliefs may be most found
in their adherence to the thirteen Jewish principles of faith as stated by the
Rambam (Maimonides).
Faith
is not the stupid credulity of an awestruck
ignorance.
Faith is the
consciousness and the confident of
love.
Faith is the cry of
reason, which persists in denying the absurd, even in
the presence of the
unknown.
Faith is a sentiment necessary to the
soul, just as breathing is to life; it is the dignity of courage, and the reality of
enthusiasm.
Faith does not consist of the
affirmation of this symbol or that, but of a genuine
and constant aspiration towards the truths which are
all veiled by symbolisms.
Faith being the aspiration to the
unknown, the
object of
faith is
absolutely and necessarily this
one thing - mystery. In order to formulate its aspirations,
faith is
forced to borrow aspirations and
images from the known.
Eliphas Levi
People of faith who assume they
know the will of God are
of course naive unless they understand the will of God is already known to us
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