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January 12th, 2003, 08:11 AM
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Beliefs and Blind Faith
We all believe in something. Everyone does, you do yourself. Most believe in a god or some spiritual being, not all do I know,but even if you don't you are believing in not believing. Funny thought is it not? What is a belief anyway? Do you know? Does anyone? I think there are different stages of belief. For instance the highest is actually knowing something is real. The lowest would be believing in something without actually using your senses or known knowledge in your belief. Take the Christian God for instance, people (myself included) believe in him but we have nevr been able to actually physically grasp him but on a spiritual level we try to. His word is written (the Bible) but remember it was translated from Hebrew to Latin and from Latin to English. Do you think there was room for error? Some information must have been lost in all of this. Do you wonder about that? Let's say some info was lost, our beliefs would have certainly been different if say someone edited out say an eleventh commandment. Am I correct? Does it ever make you wonder? I do believe in him and have faith in his judgement, but do you ever question the thought of him being real? It could all be a big myth or the like. It gives blind faith new meaning. Faith I believe is an add-on to Belief. You must have noticed that believing AND having faith in something carries more weight than just thinking it is true. A good example of this is Santa. As a kid it didn't take a lot to get us to believe in things. We had faith in Santa for him to bring gifts or the like, because on Christmas moring he did. As a result this helps prove that believing and having faith does not make something true. It makes you really question all of reallity.
*This isn't meant to offend anyone, if it does I am truly sorry.*
melakii
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