Guilable or trustworthy? Differnece?

[jmjconder]

**I have been chastied in early life for being guilable…I thought I was trusting

So just what is the difference?**

 

[skigirl1689]

I think gullibility is trusting without discernment, meaning you blindly trust and do not discern if someone is taking advantage of you. For example, I have a disability and needed to hire a fellow student to help me when I went away to college. I trusted who I hired but still made sure she did not steal from me. I never thought she would, and she never did, but I did not blindly trust her.

Hope this helps!

 

[maltmom]

My 1st thought was the outcome. If you trusted someone and it turned out well you’re trustworthy. If you trusted someone and it didn’t turn out the way expected you were gullible. Hind sight is 20/20. On the surface it looks that simple but it’s not. Maybe you shouldn’t be so open to everything you see and hear with 100% trust. I tend to trust everyone until proven otherwise.

 

[ProdglArchitect]

I think gullibility is trusting without discernment, meaning you blindly trust and do not discern if someone is taking advantage of you. For example, I have a disability and needed to hire a fellow student to help me when I went away to college. I trusted who I hired but still made sure she did not steal from me. I never thought she would, and she never did, but I did not blindly trust her.

Hope this helps!

This is a great distinction. When a non-religious person calls a religious persona gullible, it’s because they think that the religious person believes simply because someone told them it was true. I know of very few Catholics who believe simply because someone told them it was true (except for young children). These people call faith gullibility because they fail to recognize the reality of the universe they inhabit. They reject God, and therefor reject everything that he is and has done. They dismiss the bible as mere stories because they cannot accept that there is a God who would do so much for us, or because they cannot see physical proof of what it tells us. These people are living in a void, and I truly believe that God is calling to all of them, hoping to bring them back to the truth. Instead, they continue to reject the truth and assign derogatory labels to those who have accepted God, just so they can feel better about themselves.

You said “In [your] early life,” so I’m going to guess that you’re younger. If so, then for now you are trusting the people who tell you about the church because you recognize that they only want what is best for you. In the future, you will have to come to a fuller understanding of what our faith truly is, or you will lose it.

If you are not younger, then you’ve probably already begun to understand what true faith is, and from the sounds of it have decided to reaffirm it and accept God rather than reject him. At this point you are neither gullible or trustworthy, your are now Faithful.

I wouldn’t worry about their comments, don’t let their hatred of the truth turn you away from it.