Why faith alone is not enough

[rcuk]

This thread isn’t about faith & works and hat argument; but just to suggest to people who easy it is to lose faith through a lack of knowledge.

I believe faith & knowledge go hand-in hand.

Example- I fell away from the church, to an extent, after my entrance into it as a teenager. I wasn’t poorly catechised as such, but I myself should have explored the faith deeper.

For example I misunderstood the real presence and didn’t know enough about it to maintain faith in this aspect of Catholicism.

Ours is not an easy faith. I have recently come back to the church, and I listen to as many talks online as possible. One needs bible verses, church teaching, apologists; because when one has doubts- ‘bam’- a ‘reason’ should pop into our head about WHY we have faith in a particular doctrine or belief- and as a whole we have faith as a whole.

I just want to encourage everyone- and this forum is a good start- to always be inquisitive and learn. Teach yourself so that you will be able to help yourself out of any doubts or dark times- with God’s help of course.

 

[MrSnaith]

This thread isn’t about faith & works and hat argument; but just to suggest to people who easy it is to lose faith through a lack of knowledge.

I believe faith & knowledge go hand-in hand.

Example- I fell away from the church, to an extent, after my entrance into it as a teenager. I wasn’t poorly catechised as such, but I myself should have explored the faith deeper.

For example I misunderstood the real presence and didn’t know enough about it to maintain faith in this aspect of Catholicism.

Ours is not an easy faith. I have recently come back to the church, and I listen to as many talks online as possible. One needs bible verses, church teaching, apologists; because when one has doubts- ‘bam’- a ‘reason’ should pop into our head about WHY we have faith in a particular doctrine or belief- and as a whole we have faith as a whole.

I just want to encourage everyone- and this forum is a good start- to always be inquisitive and learn. Teach yourself so that you will be able to help yourself out of any doubts or dark times- with God’s help of course.

 

[Isca]

That’s a very good post, rcuk - very thought-provoking. Thanks for taking the time to write it.

 

[jmr_1985]

This thread isn’t about faith & works and hat argument; but just to suggest to people who easy it is to lose faith through a lack of knowledge.

I believe faith & knowledge go hand-in hand.

Example- I fell away from the church, to an extent, after my entrance into it as a teenager. I wasn’t poorly catechised as such, but I myself should have explored the faith deeper.

For example I misunderstood the real presence and didn’t know enough about it to maintain faith in this aspect of Catholicism.

Ours is not an easy faith. I have recently come back to the church, and I listen to as many talks online as possible. One needs bible verses, church teaching, apologists; because when one has doubts- ‘bam’- a ‘reason’ should pop into our head about WHY we have faith in a particular doctrine or belief- and as a whole we have faith as a whole.

I just want to encourage everyone- and this forum is a good start- to always be inquisitive and learn. Teach yourself so that you will be able to help yourself out of any doubts or dark times- with God’s help of course.

Amen brother! I feel like I could keep reading forever and not scratch the surface of everything there is to read and learn about our faith!

JMR

 

[His_helpmeet]

Indeed, ours is not an easy faith - especially in the context of having to live in the world. I continue to learn more about our faith - from the folks at CAF, from our priests, from my husband (a Catholic convert), from our friends, and also from teaching our daughter her Catechism. (They have a weekly class in her public school taught by volunteer teachers, but there’s no Sunday School program at our parish and the teachers themselves have indicated that once a week isn’t enough.)

 

[pick1webeen]

This thread isn’t about faith & works and hat argument; but just to suggest to people who easy it is to lose faith through a lack of knowledge.

I believe faith & knowledge go hand-in hand.

Example- I fell away from the church, to an extent, after my entrance into it as a teenager. I wasn’t poorly catechised as such, but I myself should have explored the faith deeper.

For example I misunderstood the real presence and didn’t know enough about it to maintain faith in this aspect of Catholicism.

Ours is not an easy faith. I have recently come back to the church, and I listen to as many talks online as possible. One needs bible verses, church teaching, apologists; because when one has doubts- ‘bam’- a ‘reason’ should pop into our head about WHY we have faith in a particular doctrine or belief- and as a whole we have faith as a whole.

I just want to encourage everyone- and this forum is a good start- to always be inquisitive and learn. Teach yourself so that you will be able to help yourself out of any doubts or dark times- with God’s help of course.

well it helps to have the Holy spirit

faith alone w/o the holy spirit is just religion

Published on Jan 3, 2014

Rev. Jesse Duplantis shares how Jesus Christ transformed him from a cold-hearted 1970s rock musician into the passionate evangelist some have dubbed “The Apostle of Joy”.

youtu.be/EID6AQeDjsY

 

[pwlj_christ87]

good post,

we need to constantly read and be informed… alot of catholics who have been baptized as infants do not know anything about the faith and go on as if sinfulness is ok

 

[rcuk]

Amen brother! I feel like I could keep reading forever and not scratch the surface of everything there is to read and learn about our faith!

JMR

To those instructing catechism…keep up the good work.