Up until this class week I had not given really any thought to faith. I have contemplated faith before but not quite in the same way. Before this class I thought faith was “blind” and that it was simply belief in something and not a more complete knowing like conviction. So, I have usually dismissed faith through most of my life and had not found it of a significant value. However in the readings, I discovered the idea that faith is one’s conviction in the Law of Mind. And that conviction is stronger than any existing condition that I may believe is true. I love that idea. Once again, I have a new tool that helps remind me that Law is above any condition, belief or value that exists in me.
Faith in the traditional context is “belief without evidence.” Faith has and is applied in a way in which people rely or believe in something or some process that they cannot prove. In religious terms, they believe in god(s) and their works to which there is no universal consensus to their existence. So I would say that in the end faith, in religious context, has been verily misplaced. There are too many conflicts in our world based on beliefs in multiple gods. If faith is “belief without evidence” then there have been too many decisions based on some bad info.
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