Thread: What is faith?
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Old 05-31-2007   #102 (permalink)
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Default Re: What is faith?

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Originally Posted by PaulFXH
My dilemma was that if "faith" is paramount in attaining the levels of happiness claimed by adherents of various religions, why does the concept of "faith" appear no more than self-satisfying nonsense to me?
If someone uses faith as self-satisfying happiness maker, admitting it would be not believing it. would be not using it that way.
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Originally Posted by PaulFXH
His reason was that if you don't believe and it turns out that you were wrong, you're going to be in deep trouble whereas if you believe and you were wrong there is no consequence.
And which would you choose, the one with greatest reward and biggest punishment? I would make one for you, but i am not that creative. (I thought there was a thread about that somewhere.)
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