Why the difference? Because disbelieving something requires faith in yourself, in science, in reason, in logic, in order, whatever you chose to believ that tells you something else is not true. While not believing something only requires doubt.
The first time you break a mirror you can't prove it won't cause seven years of bad luck. The second time, however, you can probably find at least one speck of good luck to prove that the superstition is false.
If you doubt the existence of God, you are not a believer. You may go to church and donate money, but you're not doing it because you have faith, you're doing it because your peers and/or family do (or possibly other reasons, I've heard people say church a is good place to meet people).
If you chose to believe that nothing like God can exist then you have make a decision to believe something which you can not prove.
That, I think, is the essence of faith. To have confidence in a decision or idea which you can not prove is correct.
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Date: 2006-04-15 12:12 pm (UTC)Cat -> Mo
Why the difference? Because disbelieving something requires faith in yourself, in science, in reason, in logic, in order, whatever you chose to believ that tells you something else is not true. While not believing something only requires doubt.
The first time you break a mirror you can't prove it won't cause seven years of bad luck. The second time, however, you can probably find at least one speck of good luck to prove that the superstition is false.
If you doubt the existence of God, you are not a believer. You may go to church and donate money, but you're not doing it because you have faith, you're doing it because your peers and/or family do (or possibly other reasons, I've heard people say church a is good place to meet people).
If you chose to believe that nothing like God can exist then you have make a decision to believe something which you can not prove.
That, I think, is the essence of faith. To have confidence in a decision or idea which you can not prove is correct.