What Is Happening To Faith?

[goodlife]

Jesus foreknew that the world would become filled with so call professed Christians who would draw near to God with their mouths but whose hearts would be far removed from him, he said: “When the Son of man arrives, will he really find this faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:1:8)

[mibn2cweus]

Faith is slowly but surely being replaced by knowledge which shows that faith was misplaced and without justification at the onset. No thanks to those who place more value on belief at the expense of acquiring knowledge.

[fiveleaves]

There will be still be real Christians on earth when Jesus returns.
You have to be born again by the spirit of God to be saved.
Knowing the Bible by heart wont save you, being good certainly wont.

[Baldric]

@ 1631, 'gooflife' Luv it!

[Atheist]

fiveleaves. You say that being good won't save you. What does 'save' mean? If it means preventing you from some kind of punishment or misery, then why should a good person not be saved? What on earth should a person do if (s)he wants to be 'saved'?

[goodlife]

While faith in most organized religions leads to disappointment especially atheism,
Jesus observed: For millions, one’s faith is something into which one is born. But for true Christians, faith is something that is acquired and cultivated. hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld.” (Hebrews 11:1) This means that our faith is based on reality.
For example, one approaching God “must believe that he is.” (Hebrews 11:6)
Many ridicule the idea that there is a God. ‘Why believe in a God you cannot see?’ they say. Yet the same ones have no trouble believing in television waves that are just as invisible. They, of course, can turn on their television sets and see the results of these invisible waves! Likewise with true Christians, our faith in God is not mere credulity or blind faith.

Paul explains about God: “His invisible qualities are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they are inexcusable.” (Romans 1:20) Yes all around us we see there is abundant visible evidence of a Master Designer.

[Paigntonian]

Buenchico: Rationality is in itself an act of faith. You have to have faith that what you think bears any relation to logic.

[Atheist]

Paigntonian. From what you have said above I presume that you accept the existence and validity of logic. Correct me if I am wrong.

[Paigntonian]

Atheist: Absolutely, but I hope you get my point about faith and logic. They are not mutually-exclusive.

[pixie374]

Paigntonian... that is the opposite of faith. Faith is believing something in spite of evidence.

[pixie374]

//While faith in most organized religions leads to disappointment especially atheism//

That isn't a faith. What is God actually looking for? Just to be worshipped?

[naomi24]

Goodlife, //While faith in most organized religions leads to disappointment especially atheism,//

Does faith in most organised religion lead to disappointment? How do you know? Should I assume that you’re disappointed in your religion?

Atheism isn’t a religion - organised or otherwise.

[Atheist]

P I think they are different things. You can argue that there is no basis at all for logic because there has to be some kind of premise to kick things off - e.g. 'I think, therefore I am'. It seems to me that it's not unreasonable to accept that, together with the evidence of our senses which gives us an idea of the world. If we don't have any starting point, then we could have faith in anything at all, however fanciful.

[Paigntonian]

mibn: I don't know your evidence that faith is being replaced by knowledge. If you consider that knowledge of faith is in and of itself to be knowledge then your point is not, as you might say, rational. Empirically, at least, Christian Churches, particularly Catholic and Evangelical, are growing in South America, in the USA, in Africa and in South-East Asia. It's only declining in Europe. So I'm afraid the figures don't back you up.

[Deskdiary]

"Many ridicule the idea that there is a God. ‘Why believe in a God you cannot see?’ they say. Yet the same ones have no trouble believing in television waves that are just as invisible."

That has to be the most absurd analogy I think I've ever seen.

I don't believe in god because I can't see her, I don't believe in god for the very simple fact the very premise there is a god is just so absurd it's laughable. I don't believe in leprachauns because I can't see them, I don't believe in leprachauns for the same reason I don't believe in god.

[pixie374]

Paigntonian, what humans think, is not "evidence". Look at how long religion has lasted so far. Neither is everyone logical or rational....look at superstitions...
I'll ask you, as no reply from GL... what does you god want? Worshipping, good people...?

[pixie374]

Not "her"" DD, either him... or it. Dont blame us for the misogyny.

[david small]

The Aquarian age is arriving. Transition is an unpleasant time to experience.

[goodlife]

When God created man he endowed man with the instinct or faculty of worship. This accounts for the fact that mankind, at all times and in all lands, has practiced and continues to practice some form of religion even atheism.

If you knew that someone had deliberately poisoned your water supply, would you go on drinking from it? Surely, you would take immediate action to find a source of safe, pure water. Well, an accurate knowledge of God’s Word equips us to identify true religion and to reject impurities that make worship unacceptable to God.

You know when Jesus stuck to God’s Word and lived in accord with his laws. In time of temptation he quoted God’s Word, which was the most potent force for good in existence on earth.

Though Satan, who controls all of this world, satan offered Jesus the glory of them all, Jesus upheld the right side of the issue, saying: “Go away, Satan! For it is written, ‘It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.’”—Matt. 4:10.

[Zacs-Master]

'This accounts for the fact that mankind, at all times and in all lands, has practiced and continues to practice some form of religion'

Utter crap. Religion exists in every society because the leaders used it as a way to subjugate and control the general populace.

[pixie374]

He sounds arrogant and egotistical to me. I don't like him.