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“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. (Hebrews 11:1NIV)
(Hebrews 11:1) New Living Translation
Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.
Faith cannot be confidence or assurance if the object of faith we placed our faith in is not a faithful being,
for the fate of a faith depends wholly on the object of the faith being faithful, provided that the faith holder has a sincere faith.
If faith is placed on none-living things, lots of luck; they cannot willfully be faithful to its believers of any living being.
Not that a living being is guaranteed to be faithful to its believer with a sincere faith, due to the fallen nature.
Only God can be faithful to the believers in Him. That's the only possibility that the faith in Him can be absolute confidence and assurance that we can count on.
However sincere faith is placed on a faith object, faith is only as good as the object of the faith is,
but not many people know that faith has crucial dependency on objects, mainly because the faith they have is a product of self generation; a faith holder generates own faith toward something, thus it doesn't wholly matter if the object of faith is believable or trustworthy as long as one can generate own powerful faith in anything.
Talking about a magical faith that a believer faithfully placed in something without itself being faithful in return to its faithful believers. It's like a walker instructs own self to walk who is really in need of a walking instructor's leading and guiding along the uncharted life journey.
This
'faith in own self' or 'faith in faith' thing is nothing short 'a blind
leading another blind who is none other than own self. It's kinda
nonsense like an eater eats own self; the eater and the eaten are the
same thing.
But in reality, it doesn't work like that.
Not only science, but also our daily life proves that the faithfulness of the faith object really matters.
If the physical laws of the universe are not faithfully true and constant, no scientist can do any science work based on all that physical laws and no true human relation can be accomplished without being trust-worthy toward one another in relationship.
in a business law, one can be sued for not being faithful to the trust-worthy contract.
According to §3-406, if a person contributes to the unauthorized signing through negligence, he or she will be held liable to any good faith holder of the instrument.
If a person with negligence in signing trust-worthy contract is subject to be sued, one can realize how serious the trusting business is.
However,
many people place their trust, faith, in any objects with known or
unknown defects. They assume only one sided trust and faithfulness can
overcome any defect in the objects of their faith, and work out their
faith to achieve their faith business. By taking chances in their
effort, some can succeed to a degree depending on their will power and
circumstances, plus a sheer luck if such a thing happens to be exist.
No one get 100% satisfaction from their faith exercise, but a lot of
them bankrupt due to the defects of own and of their faith object.
Your faith in that case is misplaced, because the faith object is not a faithful being.
Too much faith is placed in science, which gives nothing more than facts that are limited within the physical world.
Too much faith is placed in technology, which can be good or bad depending on the purpose and the use of the user.
All out faith placed on a person full of defects dooms to fail.
If one says faith is placed in the client's capacity for self-direction, self being both the believer and the believed,
no one else but own self is responsible for the result.
Contrary
to the reality, many people loves doing the faith-in faith practice,
mainly because people love themselves too much to involve others in
their trust business. They rather have faith in own self than in others,
both of which have many defects in themselves.
Yet people have faith in something simply because they want to.
It works in general to some degrees in many areas of life, including religion.
In
Buddhism, there is no God or gods whom they put their faith in, so they
put faith in own self looking for what they want to achieve with
teachings from their teachers who have no absolute answer to many life
questions.
Even in their own instruction, there is no mention of a faith object.
'In the traditional map of Buddhist training, faith is placed at the beginning, as the prerequisite for the later stages comprised in the triad of virtue, concentration, and wisdom.'
Faith is placed where or whom?
Buddha's teachings are their faith object and since the teachings came from Buddha's own self,
he is their faith object, but he's dead and gone,and unable to be faithful to his faithful followers.
Christianity is fundamentally different from all other religions since Christ is the eternal God the Son,
nevertheless, if a Christian places his faith in himself and his effort to uphold the teachings of Christ to be saved or to become anything, he is no different from any other religionists because placing faith in own self or its efforts to work out own salvation is what makes one a religionist no matter what religion one has.
If
you are a Christian believer, and put your faith in your own self,
then, you're a Christian no different from any other religious person of
different faith.
The key then is the object that faith is placed in. You could say that faith is only worth the object it is place in.
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Faith can even cause us to believe things in spite of the evidence.
This causes problems for some because sometimes people believe goofy things that are simply untrue.
However we all know stories about people who believed and persevered in the face of overwhelming odds when everyone around them thought they were nuts. Yet in the end, they were shown to be right.
We tend to say that people like that have great faith.
On a small scale, all the evidence seems to be saying that you are going to die when you jump out of that airplane. However you jump anyway because you have faith that the parachute will open in time to save you.
The key then is the object that faith is placed in. You could say that faith is only worth the object it is place in.
If your parachute is in good working order, then you have placed your faith in a worthy object and all will be well when you pull that ripcord.
However, if your parachute is defective or was packed by someone incompetent, then you’ll have problems. Your faith in that case is misplaced because that parachute isn’t going to save you. (Hopefully your backup chute will!)
If the object of your faith is worthy then all is well. If it isn’t, then best case scenario – you end up looking pretty silly. Worst case you end up doing lots of harm to yourself and others.
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