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 Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:11 am
Faith is not something you are given or learn, it is something that grows from the heart. Even if faith is lost, it grows back.
What is faith within the context of Christianity? Why was faith so important to early Christians?
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:08 pm
Knowing so very little about the early Christians I of course will answer first! smile
When it comes to faith, I've adopted the belief that it's something we all have regardless of whether we are aware of it. After reading Nietzche ( I know sad ), it became more apparent to me that people will put their faith in anything over nothing whether it's a divinity, another person, or themselves. In that vein, faith in the Christian context would be placing what we already have in Christ--what he represented and preached. Its strength is dependent on the (perceived) reliability of the receiving end.
To answer your second question, it might be to survive day to day life, the social isolation from still-Jewish friends and family, and general persecution. Whatever the reason, we can smile because Christianity is widespread and birthed the englightenment, and inspired a bunch of settlers to create America. I suppose all this can be argued whether it was for the better, but let's not wink
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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:30 pm
I'll throw in my two sense. The way I understand faith is that it is essentially trust and confidence. If you trust it and have confidence in it then you have faith. The "blind belief" definition makes no sense and is a modern corruption of the word.
I understand faith being important to the early Christians since God and Christ were strongly associated with Truth. If you put your confidence and trust in that which is true, you can't be defeated. Truth grows, and growing things live, so you then get our God described as a living God. If truth is continually growing, then you have something that has eternal life. ...now I feel like I'm rambling.
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