Faith vs Belief; Actions Speak Louder than Words

[primalfire]

What is Faith? What is Belief? Are they the same, are there differences? In my opinion, they are completely different and have no relationship to one another. Unfortunately, faith and belief are confused in the modern world. A person who does not have a certain set of beliefs is often considered to be 'not of the faith,' and is an outsider,

Comments

[girtz]

Remind me this:

FAITH AND BELIEFBelief has attained the level of faith when it motivates life and shapes the mode of living. The acceptance of a teaching as true is not faith; that is mere belief. Neither is certainty nor conviction faith. A state of mind attains to faith levels only when it actually dominates the mode of living. Faith is a living attribute of genuine personal religious experience. One believes truth, admires beauty, and reverences goodness, but does not worship them; such an attitude of saving faith is centered on God alone, who is all of these personified and infinitely more

[primalfire]

This is a great article, thank you for the link! It's right on with what I was expressing.

[girtz]

You're welcome! I am glad you liked it!

Let's see if I got it straight

[sophia_sadek]

So, faith is when you don't worry about burning in hell, and belief is when you want the other guy to burn in hell.

Re: Let's see if I got it straight

[primalfire]

*grin* Hell no! Er, Hell Yes! ... shizzle, I don't know what I believe. I just know who I am.

And hell, who cares?

[spiritbine]

the argument that I generally try and make is that faith is a subset of belief... I also try and not have any beliefs, thus I don't really have faith either... I try and live my life by the small moments that my senses tell me about, and not much more..
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.... try I said :P

[girtz]

"I try and live my life by the small moments that my senses tell me about, and not much more.."
This is your faith. In context of "Faith - The natural expression of a person as who they are."