What Are The Building Blocks Of Our Faith ?

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The Bible says that we cannot please God without Faith ------

Hebrews 11GW is all about Faith ------read all here ---https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+11&version=GW

Faith Directed People’s Lives

This is what Hebrews 11 says in the first few lines -----

Faith assures us of things we expect and convinces us of the existence of things we cannot see.2 God accepted our ancestors because of their faith.
3 Faith convinces us that God created the world through his word. This means what can be seen was made by something that could not be seen.

It goes on to say ----these people Able ---Enoch ---Noah ---Abraham and his sons all were led to obey God by their faith and Faith directed them through out their lives ----

These people showed Great Faith especially Noah and Abraham in my view ----Noah who many I am sure thought that he was a crazy man building a big boat for so long with nothing happening ----and Abraham who left his country and family to wonder to another place that he knew not when He first started out and then at 99 years old being told he would have a son by his wife in the New Testament who was barren and obeying a command to kill his son ------

Then in the New Testament Jesus picked His Disciples ---did all kinds of Faith building things but yet the Disciples were still of little Faith many times even after Jesus feeds 5 Thousand with a small fish dinner ------

Many of us today are the same as the Disciples ----we have the word to read but our Faith remains Small -----we don't trust all what the word tells us that we can accomplish ----by allowing Faith in God and His word to direct us through our lives ------peace --joy ---hope--happiness ---health ----being a blessing to others by being blessed ourselves -----answered prayer ----salvation --overcoming bad situations in our lives ----protection against the enemy ----making right decisions and walking the right path --success in praying for others -----being provided with all our needs ------is all available to us through Faith --


My Question is-- How can we grow our Faith to the level of Noah and Abraham today ------trusting fully in God's ability to direct us by and through our Faith in Him ?

Do we build our own Faith or does God provide Faith building blocks for us in His word?

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Faith is the first step in the right direction. Experience along the way and Awareness of the Divine is the end game.
 
One building block for my faith is labeled, "TURN." The other is labeled, "DON'T BURN." That is all.

Okay, seriously, I believe God builds faith in Him using the communication of the Gospel as His means of grace.
 
Pr. Jae ----your quote ------ I believe God builds faith in Him using the communication of the Gospel as His means of grace.

Can you give an example of the scripture that you feel would build your faith through His Word ------
 
unsafe said:
Pr. Jae ----your quote ------ I believe God builds faith in Him using the communication of the Gospel as His means of grace.

Can you give an example of the scripture that you feel would build your faith through His Word ------
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Neo ----your quote ----Faith is the first step in the right direction

What in your view is the right direction that your Faith takes you ------and where do you get your Faith from ?
 
Pr. Jae ----your quote --No.

OK ---so do you feel there is little Faith and greater Faith ---or all the Faith we need is given to us by the communication of the Gospel as His means of grace.

Jesus says many times to His disciples ---Oh you of little Faith ------so is there degrees of Faith in your opinion -------

here is an example ---the women with the Blood disease who felt if she just touches His garment she would be healed ------and Jesus said your Faith has made you well -----do you have this degree of Faith that this woman had ------- or do you feel we have to work our way to that type of Faith --and are there certain scriptures or Books that can help us get to that degree of Faith by reading the Gospel -----
 
unsafe said:
Neo ----your quote ----Faith is the first step in the right direction

What in your view is the right direction that your Faith takes you ------and where do you get your Faith from ?
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Not sure if I could answer that: faith is not a conscious thing, but rather something from the heart, that deep and intuitive feeling that we are not alone in this world and that there is a plan in place for every soul.
 
Charles Baudelaire was a great driver towards building stones of in determinates ... be drunk on the uncertainties ... god deals yah ... these are po' lyre known than any mortal can conceive of ...

Thus the out-of-here part of the intellect with centralized emotions ... Gods sibling is thus splattered or smeared as mother nature ... go collect on that!
 
unsafe said:
Pr. Jae ----your quote --No.

OK ---so do you feel there is little Faith and greater Faith ---or all the Faith we need is given to us by the communication of the Gospel as His means of grace.

Jesus says many times to His disciples ---Oh you of little Faith ------so is there degrees of Faith in your opinion -------

here is an example ---the women with the Blood disease who felt if she just touches His garment she would be healed ------and Jesus said your Faith has made you well -----do you have this degree of Faith that this woman had ------- or do you feel we have to work our way to that type of Faith --and are there certain scriptures or Books that can help us get to that degree of Faith by reading the Gospel -----
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unsafe, I believe that it's God who has given to some saving faith. Are there degrees of faith? I suppose so, but I'm not the judge of who has how much.
 
Neo -----your quote ----faith is not a conscious thing, but rather something from the heart, that deep and intuitive feeling that we are not alone in this world and that there is a plan in place for every soul.

This is what faith is in Buddhism is according to this -----https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_in_Buddhism

Faith as initial acceptance------Faith is only an initial trust in the Buddha as a spiritual teacher and an initial acceptance of the Buddha's teachings. By listening to the teachings and putting them into practice, a Buddhist disciple can examine through direct experience whether they are true or not. In the Cula-hatthipadopama Sutta,[6]the Buddha describes the path of enlightenment as starting with faith in the Buddha, but continuing by practicing the path of virtue, meditation and wisdom, culminating in the achievement of enlightenment.

So your enlightenment starts with Faith according to this ----so does this mean there are different degrees of Faith ----as you go higher in your enlightenment ------so you have to have faith in your teacher and an acceptance of the teachings and it says you get that by listening to the teachings and putting them into practice -------

it says this about Faith -----

Faith is generous ...
Faith can joyfully enter the Buddha's teaching;
Faith can increase knowledge and virtue;
Faith can ensure arrival at enlightenment ...
Faith can go beyond the pathways of demons,
And reveal the unsurpassed road of liberation.

Faith is the unspoiled seed of virtue,
Faith can grow the seed of enlightenment.
Faith can increase supreme knowledge,
Faith can reveal all Buddhas ...
Faith is most powerful, very difficult to have;

This Faith here seems like it is a substance it can produce ---it's powerful ----it grows the seed of enlightenment --it increases knowledge ------it reveals so it seems there are different degrees of your Faith here Neo -----
 
Didnt Noah become a drunk after the flood? And wasnt Abraham a liar and a schemer?
I realize God can use anyone, but lets be real....so people can relate more.
 
unsafe said:
The Bible says that we cannot please God without Faith ------
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Then I'm not interested in him. Any supreme being who leaves no evidence save supposedly inspiring a book of dubious value, and then is impressed with us if we believe that book, is an idiot who immediately loses the justification to be called a "supreme" anything.

Maybe what you guys really need to do to impress God even more, is to believe in other improbable things as well, like timeshare salesmen, or Tarot cards.
 
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Neo -----your quote ----faith is not a conscious thing, but rather something from the heart, that deep and intuitive feeling that we are not alone in this world and that there is a plan in place for every soul.

This is what faith is in Buddhism is according to this -----https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_in_Buddhism

Faith as initial acceptance------Faith is only an initial trust in the Buddha as a spiritual teacher and an initial acceptance of the Buddha's teachings. By listening to the teachings and putting them into practice, a Buddhist disciple can examine through direct experience whether they are true or not. In the Cula-hatthipadopama Sutta,[6]the Buddha describes the path of enlightenment as starting with faith in the Buddha, but continuing by practicing the path of virtue, meditation and wisdom, culminating in the achievement of enlightenment.

So your enlightenment starts with Faith according to this ----so does this mean there are different degrees of Faith ----as you go higher in your enlightenment ------so you have to have faith in your teacher and an acceptance of the teachings and it says you get that by listening to the teachings and putting them into practice -------

it says this about Faith -----

Faith is generous ...
Faith can joyfully enter the Buddha's teaching;
Faith can increase knowledge and virtue;
Faith can ensure arrival at enlightenment ...
Faith can go beyond the pathways of demons,
And reveal the unsurpassed road of liberation.

Faith is the unspoiled seed of virtue,
Faith can grow the seed of enlightenment.
Faith can increase supreme knowledge,
Faith can reveal all Buddhas ...
Faith is most powerful, very difficult to have;

This Faith here seems like it is a substance it can produce ---it's powerful ----it grows the seed of enlightenment --it increases knowledge ------it reveals so it seems there are different degrees of your Faith here Neo -----
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"Yes", I would say there are different degrees of faith. While each great journey starts with one step, there are always times when even great teachers like Jesus had to have faith that the next step was the right one. I'm thinking specifically about crises on the cross when Jesus cried out "My God, why have you forsaken me?"

The "substance" faith can produce is the effect of awareness.
 
Unsafe - could you say a bit more about your original words "What are the building blocks of our faith?"

Do you mean that we each have the same faith? That everyone's faith is built on the same blocks?

I don't quite understand the question.
 
Hello sister unsafe

Consider a candle flame

What does it need to exist?

Does it exist by itself without need for anything else?

It needs oxygen of a certain concentration...too much and the candle will burn out in a flash...too little and the flame wont take.

It needs to be in an atmosphere of a certain density.

It needs a wick of a certain composition and length.

It needs a candle of a certain composition.

What of faith, then?

Can it be trained like a skill or muscle that gets stronger?
 
KayTheCurler -----could you say a bit more about your original words "What are the building blocks of our faith?"

----Faith comes from God ---- we all have what I call Intellectual Faith ----we believe what we see ---it relies on our 5 senses ----for instance --we believe in our Doctor for healing us through medication prescribed -------this Faith relies on what we see ----this type of Faith doesn't produce it is dead Faith cause we only rely on what we see --feel --touch --taste and smell

Then we can have what I call Faith in a unseen God ---this Faith doesn't rely on what we see ---it relies on what we don't see -----we believe in what God promises in His word will be fulfilled ----this type of Faith Produces what we have yet to see ---this type of Faith is a substance ----this Faith brings our hopes from the unseen into the seen ------Jesus said Blessed are those who believe without seeing ------this Faith comes from us hearing the Gospel and believing what is says will come to pass ----

Then there is Saving Faith ----to have this Faith brings about Salvation and it requires that we believe that Jesus died to free us from Sin and Death and that we will have eternal life as it states in God's word --

So all people have Faith but all do not have the same type of Faith ----Babes in Christ are suppose to mature in their Faith ----so I am asking what are the building blocks of our faith ---how do we get to the type of Faith that Noah and Abraham had ---they had no word to read or go by to build their Faith we have God's word and many of us Christians still have little faith not great faith ---little faith is wavering faith ----like the disciples had many times ---Peter had Great Faith for a second ---he walked on water then lost it ----He lost Focus ----he looked away from Jesus toward the wind ----

So is focus a building block of maturing our faith ----- keeping our focus on God and His the word -----are there certain scripture that can be faith builders ----etc ----

Scripture says ---faith will move mountains -----how many of us have used our faith to remove a mountain in our life ------the mountain being bad situations--problem ---sickness ----etc that comes against us -----The Bible says we have this ability through faith to do so ------ how do we get there -----that is the question ?
 
unsafe said:
------Jesus said Blessed are those who believe without seeing ------
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In every other aspect of our lives, believing claims without seeing (or any other form of evidence) is called "gullible". Gullibility is seen as something to be exploited. If there were anything to Christianity, then it wouldn't have to rely on gullibility.


unsafe said:
Scripture says ---faith will move mountains -----how many of us have used our faith to remove a mountain in our life ------the mountain being bad situations--problem ---sickness ----etc that comes against us -----The Bible says we have this ability through faith to do so ------ how do we get there -----that is the question ?
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And how many have used meditation, determination, or any other methods to overcome obstacles? Do we have any reason to think that the obstacles overcome by Christians are any greater than the obstacles overcome by members of any other faith group, or no faith? You have nothing here, but when gullibility is seen as an asset, everything becomes a reason to believe.
 
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