What is the difference between facts and faith?
What is the difference between facts and faith?
Having faith in something means no proof is required. This is often the case when it comes to religious views. In fact, the nature of religion is based on the fact that no proofs are required. And though many people may say, “I take my religion as fact,” that is not quite accurate.
Is religion a fact?
Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible is a 2015 book by the biologist Jerry Coyne concerning the relationship between science and religion….Faith Versus Fact.
| Author | Jerry Coyne |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Viking Press |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Pages | 311 |
| ISBN | 978-0-670-02653-1 |
How are facts and beliefs related?
We all know what a fact is. It’s an irrefutable piece of information. Something that can be proven because it just is- unlike our beliefs. A belief is a thought that we’ve decided is true, but it doesn’t have to be.
How does faith affect life?
Authentic faith influences our small, daily decisions about how we behave, like our attitude when driving and how we treat our families. But it also influences the big choices that we make about our life: the house we buy, how we use our money, where we send our children to school.
Can we find facts to support our faith?
Some suggest we cannot find facts to support our faith, nor is it preferable to try. Faith is not the kind of thing that has anything to do with facts, they say. If we have evidence to prove what we believe, then that takes away from real faith. Somehow these people think that genuine faith is eviscerated by knowledge and evidence.
Why is faith not a valuable thing?
Not because faith isn’t valuable, but because it’s often deeply misunderstood. ‘Faith’ in this twisted sense is what you use when all reason is against you. It’s religious wishful thinking, in which one squeezes out spiritual hope by intense acts of sheer will.
Do people of ‘Faith’ believe the impossible?
People of ‘faith’ believe the impossible. People of ‘faith’ believe that which is contrary to fact. People of ‘faith’ believe that which is contrary to evidence. People of ‘faith’ ignore reality. Some suggest we cannot find facts to support our faith, nor is it preferable to try. This is silly.
What is the difference between faith and knowing?
So, faith is knowing, and that knowledge is based on evidence leading to confidence or conviction. But biblical faith is more than that. There’s another element. Faith is not just knowing.
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