I wrote about this in January when the May 21st rapture announcement came out. I am writing it again now that the 21st has passed us because there are still a number of confused or maybe just amused people out there.
A belief in something that isn’t provable.
A belief in something that might be untrue.
Faith (Webster’s dictionary) –
1 a: allegiance to duty or a person: LOYALTY. b: (1) fidelity to one’s promises (2): sincerity of intentions
2 a (1): belief and trust in loyalty to God (2): belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion
b (1): firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2): complete trust
3: something that is believed especially with strong conviction; esp: a system of religious beliefs
Just yesterday there was a popular tv show on where one of the main characters was trying to get her family to become more religious. In one scene, the woman asked a man she mistook for a priest about his ideas on faith. The answer was faith was belief in something you couldn’t prove that you just considered that there were bigger things than one’s self. That is a very shallow and mystic definition.