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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 (social science)|identity]], for example a person who identifies himself or herself as a [[Muslim]] or a [[skeptic]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faiths]
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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]].[http://www.nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php/Paper_102_-_The_Foundations_of_Religious_Faith]
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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.
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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.
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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 [[eternal|eternity]].[http://www.nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php/Paper_102_-_The_Foundations_of_Religious_Faith]
         
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