Personal Reflection On Faith: My Definition Of Faith

My definition of faith is to believe in something or someone without question, evidence or doubt. Faith does not prove existence, only that you believe with or without logic. In my personal opinion “Faith” can be a religious or non-religious term. For instance, I have faith in gravity. I believe that, wherever I am in the world, if I drop something it will fall. I do not and cannot have absolute knowledge of this, for I cannot be everywhere at once at all times dropping things and proving my hypothesis. And perhaps, just perhaps there are certain and extremely rare conditions on earth where I could drop something and it wouldn’t fall, where gravity wouldn’t apply, I don’t know. But even so, the only reasonable and intelligent thing to assume, based on my own experiences and on what others have told me, is that gravity always applies. So I have faith in gravity, and that faith is reasonable and logical. It is the only reasonable position. Many individuals have different answers but not all of them can be right or accurate.
In another aspect of thinking, I have hoped for things to happen in my life like sweepstakes, or my car repaired for an affordable price. Sometimes my hope was in vain, and sometimes I was happy with the results. My faith is built on trust. While reading Dynamics of Faith this semester I’ve been able to reflect on my true feelings of faith. The truthfulness of our faith can be looked at subjectively and objectively. Our faith is subjectively true, if it is what we are ultimately concerned about and it is objectively true if it is really the ultimate. There can be no faith without the participation of that which is ultimate. If there is no disclosure of the ultimate, than man cannot have faith in this ultimate. F...

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... see why it has caused so many controversial world issues. Religion has existed as long as humans could think and wonder. A vast majority of people have always believed that there is a higher power or a divine being that controls the events that occur in our lives.
Concluding, faith is not belief, but a quality of being human. Above all I enjoyed the emphasis Tillich places on faith in life. Tough, but worth reading because this book made me think about issues that I have taken for granted as well as offering potential insight into the more devout among us. For me faith still produces and offers a wide variety of questions but in the end I know my beliefs are based on love and understanding leading to salvation and happiness that can also be found through philosophy. But after looking deeper into both terms, I find that they are very closely related.