I want to know your opinion about faith. (homework, hurry up! )

Some people may answer that it is an ideological view. Religion is a theistic belief, and Marxism-Leninism is an atheistic belief. In fact, this answer is obviously wrong. Faith is a psychological verb, and "belief" is an inner recognition. The word "Yang" itself means "facing the sky". If a person's perception is down, left, right or towards his own body, it can't be called "Yang". The most common mistake made by atheists is to regard "characters" as "gods" in the sky. It is also wrong for a person to think that joining a religion in the world is a person with faith, because many religions on earth also regard people's thoughts and theories as "gods". For example, Buddhism's Sakyamuni, Taoism's Laozi, Confucianism's Confucius and Islam's Muhammad are all "figures" in history. They are all born and died like ordinary people in the world, and they have not risen to heaven, and they will come again to make a final judgment on mankind.

So the true faith is trust-Jesus Christ. Some people may say that my answer is too simple and lacks rational organic structure. If I want to say "faith-refers to the return of human reason to God's truth." Many people will be difficult to understand because of the differences in knowledge. People's rationality (legitimacy and virtue) has been polluted by the bloody inheritance of ancestors' disobedience crime, which is manifested in: right and wrong are indistinguishable, good and evil are difficult to argue, there is no correct moral standard and value orientation, people are confused by various specious theoretical viewpoints, easily dragged by illusions, easily influenced by trends, and selfishly lost their rational direction in solipsism. It can be seen that only when human rationality returns to God's truth can human virtue and legitimacy live up to God's "image and style" when he first created man. Faith is not superstition. Many people regard faith as superstition, because many people regard superstition as faith. The phenomenon is:

A, use gold, silver, copper, iron, mud and stone to create idols and false gods you think.

B, burn paper, incense, set up a mourning hall, watch feng shui, do Dojo, predict bad luck, fortune-telling, choose numbers and choose blessings, and so on. These superstitious activities have been reflecting the degeneration and corruption of human reason since ancient times, which are embodied in the following points:

1, bringing dictatorship to the regime (for example, the ancient emperor of China was the real dragon emperor, and the stars descended to earth);

2, bring harm to people's livelihood (such as the ancient burial system);

3. It fetters people's minds (for example, one-sided three cardinal guides and five permanents, three obedience and four virtues).

4. Damage to human property (for example, China people spend more than 500 million yuan on superstitious activities every year).

5, bring disharmony to the relationship between people (zodiac in marriage, etc. ).

6, bring rational imbalance to human concept (on the one hand, hope the weather is good, national security, strong financial resources, etc. On the other hand, I practice the concept and means of "man conquers nature" to represent everything. "Confusion" makes people confused and follows rationally. The literal definition of superstition is to make people believe what people think, what people are afraid of, what people preach and what people make. Superstition comes from the degeneration of human reason (a mixture of selfish desires and fears after leaving the truth)-into ignorance of the "created" as the sustenance of "God".

Faith is not science, but it goes beyond science. Christians' attitude towards science is to learn to use science in life on the ground, to give it respect in correct understanding, but never to be superstitious. Because science comes from God's creation-giving human beings "image and style", it has all the functions of managing and using God and belongs to the rational category of human beings, but it can't solve the problems of human legitimacy and virtue. Science falls into two categories: nature and society. It is a subject knowledge that people use rational analysis and research to create things and discover various laws and rules. Science is not everything. It is neutral, and there is no distinction between good and evil. It is just a tool of human life. The question is who will use it. Used for good, beneficial to life; Being used by evil is a harm to human beings. For example, in today's world, the sum of atomic bombs and other nuclear weapons can destroy the earth hundreds of times. The more scientific people are, the higher their criminal means are, and the more hidden they are. Tang Chongrong said, "Science is used rationally, and faith is the return of rationality." I think it makes sense. It helps us to understand the Bible and accept faith.

Yes-"faith is that God becomes God through the special revelation of the Bible, so I believe in him". If a person has no faith or false faith, it is like a life bound by sin (Mar. 5: 3- 10 "living in the grave" = no faith; No one can bind him, not even with chains, because people have bound him with fetters and chains many times, but the chains have been broken by him and the fetters have been broken by him, and no one can subdue him. Man's reason is particularly rigid and self-righteous in sin. It seems that morality and law, kindness and discipline can't make him or her repent and turn over a new leaf. "He often cries in graves and mountains day and night and cuts himself with stones" = There is no peace and joy in life, and he often complains about others, his status and treatment, and develops into a state of numbness and self-mutilation; When he saw Jesus at a distance, he ran to worship him and cried out, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, son of the Most High God?". I beg you in the name of God not to make me suffer! "People cry for heaven in distress and despair, but they are unwilling to accept the salvation of the cross. Because the name of this kind of person is "group" = majority, which is the representative of the evil situation in which human beings live.

What is faith? Perhaps this repeatedly mentioned word is still difficult to define, or everyone has his own explanation.

Indeed, people are reluctant to mention this heavy word most of the time, and sometimes even ignore or even escape. Because the ideological education we have been instilled tells us that faith is related to religion, and religion is a form of superstition, so faith has become the opposite of science. So many people always write "nothing" or "* * * materialism" in the column of belief when filling out forms.

This is worth thinking about. If a person has no faith, what is the basis of his behavior, social activities and thinking mode? And "* * * productism" is just a social form, which is not the basis of values or epistemology at all. For * * * productism, "belief" can be used instead of "belief".

Why do you believe that? Because we need to be afraid. If a person can be fearless of anything in this world, it is not brave, but terrible. Laws, regulations and ethics are all doing the same job-telling you what you can and can't do-in short, you need a system that scares you and allows you to do things according to the rules within a certain system. So in this sense, the existence of faith is first and foremost a need.

The complexity of belief is only reflected in the form, but in essence, belief is still a fairly pure entity. In one of his papers, Uramuno once wrote: "Believe in what we have never seen before, no! But to create something we have never seen before. " This sentence may be better understood for the western world that believes in Christianity-belief is not an existence, but an ideal that can be expected. Our belief is essentially a secular ideal, but as the secular ideal is enriched and modified, and accompanied by rituals and scriptures, it is mostly changed into a religion (or religion becomes the main form of belief).

In the book Tragic Consciousness of Life, Urano also wrote, "Usually, we hope not because we believe, but because we have hope." When an old man prayed for the recovery of a child's illness in a temple, she didn't come to pay homage because she believed in Buddhism, but hoped that the child would really recover because of her prayers, so she believed in the existence of Buddhism. This causal relationship is very important in the understanding of faith.

This is why there is such a saying in the Bible: Lord, I believe! Please help my unbelief.

As I said before, the complexity of belief is only reflected in form, but I really don't see a clear concept of belief. That is, what is faith and what is unbelief. Some people say that he believes in science, others say that he is an atheist. How can we tell whether it is a belief or an attitude?

From the object of belief, it may be simply divided into monotheism, polytheism, pantheism, naturalism and no belief. Whether you believe in Christianity, Islam, Buddhism or Taoism, the difference is only the difference between God's existence form and divinity, which is fundamentally the belief and imagination that God is the ruling force and dominant force.

When you say you believe in science, you are actually talking about your realistic attitude. You only want to believe what existing science can explain, and you are keen to explain what happened with science. Science can't be a belief, because people dominate belief, and belief is an irrational existence related to will, while science has nothing to do with it. Just as you believe in science, you are still afraid of ghosts and gods in the dark, which Scully said in the X-file.

For many people, their faith is: "What is faith?" ? This may be a very spiritual person, but he can't be a profound art connoisseur; Because deep art appreciators have to ask, "What is faith? 』。

I must first declare that I absolutely do not advocate the alternative Phariseism that "only those who have a deep appreciation of art are good Christians". All the arguments in this post are only for Christians who love literature and art. There is no doubt that God will allow a good Christian to have a very shallow artistic accomplishment at the same time. We can only ask for mutual acceptance.

"What is faith? What is needed is a true, correct and effective way of thinking, which is similar to simplifying a very all-inclusive belief life into an object suitable for rational argumentation such as doctrinal revision and social justice.

"What is faith? What is needed is a narrow and shallow personal life experience, which is constantly tried in the all-inclusive belief life, so as to be updated and transformed into a brand-new life experience.

So one is "speculation" and the other is "experience". Guess often has a more reliable and clear answer, so many people know that the Lord of the Rings can't be touched. Experience is often traumatic, dangerous or even destructive. Frodo's experience of almost becoming the Dark Lord is a portrayal.

Towards "What is faith? It is true that people who believe in pure quality are prone to poor quality control and call on God deeply through self-degradation to extremely despicable crimes. This is a waste of resources that only people with artistic characteristics can make.

Towards "What is faith? People always have amazing ideas; This originality is by no means a correct belief, but it is often the only way for such people to renew their beliefs.

Because of the danger of this road, too many people will become atheism, new era and post-modernism as soon as they leave ... I wonder what impact the final judgment will have on these people.

Why did God totally reward you, an ordinary art lover, for such a dangerous competition and such a dangerous way? This is the unknowable mystery of faith. Like the Lord of the Rings, Frodo has a gift for playing the Lord of the Rings? No, let's assume that he is a brainless fool. I didn't expect the ring to be used to defeat the great devil. Because he is an idiot, he only knows how to send the ring to the crater; It is precisely because he is just a fool, not a genius opponent of the Lord of the Rings, that he was tempted to succeed by the Lord of the Rings at the last minute.

Similarly, Sam is a big idiot who only cares about his master, so he is stupid enough not to use the Lord of the Rings, and finally he can't escape the temptation of the Lord of the Rings. Not to mention how Gollum, who is completely mentally retarded, became the indirect destroyer of the Lord of the Rings.

The whole story is a kind of picky, inexplicably caused the destruction of the Lord of the Rings, the reason is completely mysterious. The only reason for choosing is that these fools are not as clever as Boromir in thinking about using the Lord of the Rings to restore the country, so they will make mistakes to enable them to complete their tasks.

This is exactly the same as going to God through the artistic mind. Asking "what is faith" is no less dangerous than wearing the Lord of the Rings. If you are smart enough to use this inquiry to construct the content of faith, you are likely to be tempted by the Lord of the Rings.

My experience is that the artistic mind must rely on Frodo's redemptive power and ask, "What is faith? I found many beliefs and correct outlook on life that are far greater than Christianity. However, like Frodo, I seem to be wearing such a big ring but I don't know how to use it. I have experienced many different faiths, but in the end I always foolishly insisted that I was the most suitable for Christianity.

I have observed that many artistic minds are like this. The artistic level they appreciate can definitely replace God, but they are too stupid to take this step.

Perhaps in the depths of every artistic soul, God has given us Frodo-style salvation power, so that we can have the most dangerous ring, but enjoy eternal rest like Frodo.