Why Faith?

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Why is faith important to you? Is it simply a means to get into heaven? Or is it something else?

I’m simply curious.

If it’s too personal I apologize if the question bothers you.
 
Hi…as it isn’t the here and now and all that it involves seems unclear ‘seen through a glass darkly’ as St Paul wrote, I don’t actually worry all that much about going to heaven. I’m familiar with the Last Judgement, Matthew 31-46, and with the commandments of love, and honestly, who doesn’t want to live in kindness for others? It’s sufficient in itself to help and encourage others as they need it as we don’t wish others to be suffering or lonely or lacking anything. It’s human to respond thus.
So one fulfils the requirement anyway.

To get to heaven will be a bonus that I’ll welcome when the time comes…in the meantime, here we are, living the best we can manage to be decent human beings.

Faith is important because of the facts.

The fact that there’s a God and a heaven is a fact or not, however we live. If the clouds cover the sky for a period we assume the sun is there. This would be a lifeless planet if it the sun weren’t out there. It’s like that with God. Without Him there would be no life here.

Whether I have faith or not, God exists. I have faith as a fact of my life. Sometimes questions come but it happens that I do have a certainty which was a personal gift from God 28 years ago. When I doubt for various reasons, I remember that event. So do I have faith, or knowledge?

I guess my faith is mostly about relationships…living with as much love and generosity I can manage with others, and a sense of relationship with Jesus. I guess I’m rather sensate, because my relationship with God is real through the God-Man Jesus. I rely on the Spirit to give life to my prayer for others and to any good I manage to do. The Sacraments as meaningful as encounters with the Lord, but also very much as avenues of prayer for others.

Life’s been difficult and has involved a lot of loss and sadness at times, so though a cheerful and friendly person, while I believe in life after death I do find it difficult to imagine a life where all is goodness and beauty, so it wouldn’t really worry me all that much if there were in fact no life after death.

The fact is, there is life in heaven with God and our brothers and sisters of the ages, and I’m sure I’ll be delighted when I get there. In the meantime, it’s just a matter of doing the best I can each day because that’s the way I live.
 
Starwynd said:
Why is faith important to you? Is it simply a means to get into heaven? Or is it something else?

I’m simply curious.

If it’s too personal I apologize if the question bothers you.
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At those times when we experience the worst things life has to offer, there’s still a reason and a hope behind it all. Without belief that a larger purpose exists, the inevitable suffering of life is meaningless and the world’s just a big slaughterhouse-kind of a cosmic joke played on us by a joker we couldn’t even shake our fists at- because he wouldn’t exist.
 
I would say it’s the foundation of everything I believe. Without faith as a basic necessity, what else is there?

Faith is more than something to do with God. You have to have faith with everything.

You have to have faith in your alarm clock to wake you up, faith that you’ll be able to get some breakfast, faith that your car will start, faith that the car will run and the tires wont blow out, faith that the other drivers on the road wont go crazy and run into you, faith that you will have a job when you get to work.

See where I’m going with this?
 
Starwynd said:
Why is faith important to you? Is it simply a means to get into heaven? Or is it something else?

I’m simply curious.

If it’s too personal I apologize if the question bothers you.
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It’s important to me to understand why I’m here. It’s a nagging question that I need an answer to. I just believe there has to be a purpose, and the most important thing to me is to learn about whoever/however/whyever I got here.
 
I desire that perfect good, that perfect love–which is God, who is also omniscient, omnipotent, the principal truth. I have faith because of these aspects of Him that He desires my ultimate good and knows better than I how I and everyone else can achieve it.
 
Starwynd said:
Why is faith important to you? Is it simply a means to get into heaven? Or is it something else?
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Because not everyone is a scientist, philosopher, theologian, academic… Faith is what unites us as Christians, we might all be different and have a vastly different understanding of the complicated issues often prevalent in religious discussion… but at the end of the day, our faith marks us as the united people of G-d…

Faith is what allows the message of Jesus Christ relevant to the whole of humanity…

FYI, I do not have faith simple to get to heaven… After I die I will get what I deserve and hope for nothing, because I deserve nothing 😉
 
Starwynd said:
Why is faith important to you? Is it simply a means to get into heaven? Or is it something else?

I’m simply curious.

If it’s too personal I apologize if the question bothers you.
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Without my faith I am a partial person and a bit hallow. With my faith I am complete, at peace and full of joy.
 
One need faith with works or it is dead. Works without Faith is dead. This is reiterated in James Chapter 2. One must have faith and works mixed with the other two theological virtues of hope and charity in order to get to heaven
 
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