RootsBooster Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Faith is formed though each ones own personal life experience, which is different for each individual. ....but for many the experience which forms their faith will simply be indoctrination from an early age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janie48 Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 ....but for many the experience which forms their faith will simply be indoctrination from an early age.Yes but many have found faith by rebelling against that indoctrination, and finding their own way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootsBooster Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Yes but many have found faith by rebelling against that indoctrination, and finding their own way. Are you saying they (after indoctrination) lost their faith and then got it back through other means? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthenekred Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Yes but many have found faith by rebelling against that indoctrination, and finding their own way. Based on the first instance that was rebelled against? Whichever way, you can't get away from the initial indoctrination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbeliever Posted September 11, 2013 Author Share Posted September 11, 2013 This is just me, but personally I've always found faith a rather bemusing concept. It seems to some to be a virtue which is defined for convenience and does not derive from some basic principle. The best definition for faith I can come up with is "believing something because it's not true". The question of the existence of a god is either true or false. It is not subjective. How choosing to believe (guessing) that a god exists makes one feel may be interesting, but it is wholly irrelevant to whether or not he/she actually does exist. We can debate whether a particular god exists, but either he/she exists or he/she does not. Existence is a binary state. After all how can a god that only exists inside somebody's heart provide any of the services we expect from gods such as favours regarding weather, lotteries and the smiting of enemies; and of course the provision of an afterlife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janie48 Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Are you saying they (after indoctrination) lost their faith and then got it back through other means?Again, thats down to individual experience. Some will not entirely lose their faith but will rebel against religious authority others will rarely, or never, choose to even think about it unless something happens that makes them do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootsBooster Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Again, thats down to individual experience. Some will not entirely lose their faith but will rebel against religious authority others will rarely, or never, choose to even think about it unless something happens that makes them do so. So how would find faith if they never lost it in the first place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janie48 Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 So how would find faith if they never lost it in the first place?People can think they have lost their faith when they are going through a difficult period, I think it happens to many people at some stage in their life. It seems perfectly natural to me when you consider how complex human nature is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootsBooster Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 People can think they have lost their faith when they are going through a difficult period, I think it happens to many people at some stage in their life. It seems perfectly natural to me when you consider how complex human nature is. How does someone 'think' they've lost their faith? If they can't detect/aren't aware of any faith within them then, by definition, surely they are without faith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janie48 Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 How does someone 'think' they've lost their faith? If they can't detect/aren't aware of any faith within them then, by definition, surely they are without faith Because for a while,they may feel an absence of that spiritual awareness they had previously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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