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'''Faith''' 　can refer to a [[religion]], or to belief in [[God]]. It has two general implications which can be implied either exclusively or mutually: <!-- I don't think citations are necessarily need for these points. The points give accurate applications of the topics, what more is needed? respond in the talk page  -->

'''Faith''' can refer to a [[religion]], or to belief in [[God]]. It has two general implications which can be implied either exclusively or mutually: <!-- I don't think citations are necessarily need for these points. The points give accurate applications of the topics, what more is needed? respond in the talk page  -->

* To [[trust (social sciences)|trust]]:

* To [[trust]]:

**Believing a certain [[variable]] will act or has the potential to act a specific way despite the potential influence and probability of known or unknown change.

**Believing a certain [[contingency]] has the potential to yield a specific result.

*** To have '''faith''' in ones spouse that he/she will keep a promise of commitment

*** To have '''faith''' in ones spouse that he/she will keep a promise of commitment.

*** To have '''faith''' that the world will someday be peaceful

*** To have '''faith''' that the world will someday be peaceful

*** To have '''faith''' in a person to pay you back

*** To have '''faith''' in a [[person]] to pay you back

* To [[believe]] without [[reason]]:

* To [[believe]] without [[reason]]:

** Believing impulsively, or believing based upon personal [[hope|hopes]]

** Believing impulsively, or believing based upon personal [[hope|hopes]]

In either case, Faith is based upon the interpretation of the intangible ([[feeling]]s, [[emotion]]s, etc.) instead of the physically tangible and is primarily associated with religion in modern times.

In either case, faith is based upon the interpretation of the intangible ([[feeling]]s, [[emotion]]s, etc.) instead of the physically tangible and is primarily associated with [[religion]] in modern times.

   

   

== Epistemological validity of faith ==

== Epistemological validity of faith ==

There exists a wide spectrum of opinion with respect to the epistemological validity of faith.  On one extreme is [[logical positivism]], which denies the validity of any beliefs held by faith; on the other extreme is [[fideism]], which holds that true belief can only arise from faith, because reason and evidence cannot lead to truth.  Some [[Foundationalism|foundationalists]], such as [[St. Augustine of Hippo]] and [[Alvin Plantinga]], hold that all of our beliefs rest ultimately on beliefs accepted by faith.  Others, such as [[C.S. Lewis]], hold that faith is merely the virtue by which we hold to our reasoned ideas, despite moods to the contrary.

There exists a wide [[spectrum]] of opinion with respect to the epistemological validity of faith.  On one extreme is [[logical positivism]], which denies the validity of any beliefs held by faith; on the other extreme is [[fideism]], which holds that true belief can only arise from faith, because reason and evidence cannot lead to [[truth]].  Some [[Foundationalism|foundationalists]], such as [[St. Augustine of Hippo]] and [[Alvin Plantinga]], hold that all of our beliefs rest ultimately on beliefs accepted by faith.  Others, such as [[C.S. Lewis]], hold that faith is merely the [[virtue]] by which we hold to our reasoned [[ideas]], despite moods to the contrary.

=== Fideism ===

=== Fideism ===

==Faith as commitment==

==Faith as commitment==

Sometimes, faith means a belief in a relationship with a [[deity]]. In this case, "faith" is used in the sense of "fidelity." For many Jews, the [[Hebrew Bible]] and [[Talmud]] depict a committed but contentious relationship between their God and the Children of Israel. For a lot of people, faith or the lack thereof, is an important part of their [[Identity (social science)|identity]], for example a person who identifies himself or herself as a [[Muslim]] or a [[skeptic]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faiths]

Sometimes, faith means a belief in a relationship with a [[deity]]. In this case, "faith" is used in the sense of "fidelity." For many Jews, the [[Hebrew Bible]] and [[Talmud]] depict a committed but contentious relationship between their God and the Children of Israel. For a lot of people, faith or the lack thereof, is an important part of their [identity]], for example a person who identifies himself or herself as a [[Muslim]] or a [[skeptic]].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faiths]

==Urantia Reference==

==Quote==

To the unbelieving materialist, man is simply an [[evolution|evolutionary]] accident. His hopes of survival are strung on a figment of mortal [[imagination]]; his fears, loves, longings, and beliefs are but the reaction of the incidental juxtaposition of certain lifeless atoms of matter. No display of [[energy]] nor expression of trust can carry him beyond the grave. The devotional labors and inspirational genius of the best of men are doomed to be extinguished by death, the long and lonely night of eternal oblivion and  soul extinction. Nameless despair is man's only reward for living and toiling under the temporal sun of mortal existence. Each day of life slowly and surely tightens the grasp of a pitiless doom which a hostile and relentless universe of matter has decreed shall be the crowning insult to everything in human desire which is beautiful, noble, lofty, and good.

"[[Salve|Saving]] '''faith''' has its birth in the [[human]] [[heart]] when the moral [[consciousness]] of man realizes that human [[value|values]] may be translated in mortal [[experience]] from the [[material]] to the [[spiritual]], from the human to the [[divine]], from [[time]] to [[eternal|eternity]]."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_102_-_The_Foundations_of_Religious_Faith]

 

But such is not man's end and [[eternal]] [[destiny]]; such a vision is but the cry of despair uttered by some wandering [[soul]] who has become lost in [[spiritual]] darkness, and who bravely struggles on in the face of the mechanistic sophistries of a material [[philosophy]], blinded by the confusion and distortion of a complex learning. And all this doom of darkness and all this destiny of despair are forever dispelled by one brave stretch of faith on the part of the most humble and unlearned of God's children on earth.

 

This saving '''faith''' has its birth in the [[human]] heart when the moral [[consciousness]] of man realizes that human [[value|values]] may be translated in mortal experience from the material to the [[spiritual]], from the human to the [[divine]], from [[time]] to [[eternity]].[http://www.nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php/Paper_102_-_The_Foundations_of_Religious_Faith]

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