a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality"
A faith is a particular religion, for example Christianity, Buddhism, or Islam. England shifted officially from a Catholic to a Protestant faith in the 16th century
(pistis) being reliable, honoring comittments To have faith in God is to live and act on the basis of the supposition that God is trustworthy Not a feeling, but actions
"Faith" is the spiritual state associated with the inner experience of the highest of the three "heads" of keter, the riesha dlo ityada ("unknowable head")
Mental acceptance of and confidence in a claim as truth without proof supporting the claim
Mormon: (1) The belief that God exists and has given a good plan of salvation (Mormonism) (2) The power God gives Mormons whereby they can resist sin and become perfect "But he must believe the truth, obey the truth, and practice the truth, to obtain the power of God called faith" (Past Living Prophet and President Brigham Young quoted in Teachings of Presidents of the Church Brigham Young p 56) The more righteous a person is, the more power (faith) God will give him "To those who have not begun the quest of comprehension, the word faith appears to be only a synonym for a kind of belief or conviction It is a principle of power" (Sharing the Gospel Manual, p 82) Christian: The sure hope of our deliverance from death to eternal life in heaven Faith is a gift of the Holy Spirit
is the total complex of one's ideals, principles, and beliefs regarding all fundamental matters of life and the self Faith lives in our cognitions about religious teachings or doctrines These include the identity of God, the content of Sacred Scriptures which record God's revelations to humans, the explanations in creeds, doctrinal classes, sermons, commentaries to the Word, and the various attitudes and opinions we hold regarding God, death, the Commandments, abortion, crime, altruism, war, and anything relating to religion, church, sacraments, education, customs
From the Hebrew aman, be firm, true; and Latin fides, trust, confidence 1 In the Hebrew scriptures, God was always true to his people and was called the Faithful One In the Christian writings, faith was the way people let go of self-interest and believed in Jesus and his teachings, and then remained faithful to them Faith is a gift from God that allows people to believe and trust in his love and protection 2 A system of religious belief: the Jewish faith, the Christian faith etc
Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on testimony
Fidelity to one's promises, or allegiance to duty, or to a person honored and beloved; loyalty
to place ones trust and confidence in something or someone When God wanted to find out how much Abraham trusted Him, He asked Abraham to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac Today people show their faith or absolute trust in God by believing what He has said in His Word, the Bible When they do, they accept Him as Lord of their lives In the book of Hebrews, God lists men and women who lived by faith Ephesians 2: 8
a rational attitude towards a potential object of knowledge which arises when we are subjectively certain it is true even though we are unable to gain theo訃etical or objective certainty By contrast, knowledge implies objective and subjective certainty, while opinion is the state of having neither objective nor subjective certainty Kant encouraged a more humble approach to philoso計hy by claiming to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith-i e , by disé™tinguishing between what we can know empirically and what is transcenè‹“ent, which we can approach only by means of faith
The ability to discern with extraordinary confidence the will and purpose of God, and to propel the body of believers into actively claiming the promises of the Lord Acts 11: 22-24, Romans 4: 18-21, I Corinthians 12: 9, Hebrews 11