What is faith for you? Give you personal experience about your faith in God.
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Explanation:
all discussions of faith, one must first start with an understanding of the two very different definitions of faith you will find in every single dictionary:
faith /fāTH/ noun
Complete trust or confidence in someone or something. "This restores one's faith in politicians." Synonyms: trust, belief, confidence, conviction, credence, reliance, dependence
Strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof. synonyms: religion, church, sect, denomination, persuasion, religious persuasion, religious belief, belief, code of belief, ideology, creed, teaching, dogma, doctrine [emphasis added]
Which kind of faith is this question talking about? Because this question is tagged with topics for religion and God, obviously this question is talking about religious faith. We can therefore dispense with a consideration of secular faith.
If you skip this crucial step of distinguishing between these two different types of faith, you will likely confound the two concepts of faith and cause confusion, in the form of the logical fallacy known as equivocation. For example, you are likely to think that your faith in God is the same kind of faith that people have in, say, their marriage, or gravity. To avoid this confusion, it’s always best to clarify which definition of faith you’re talking about if it’s not clear from the context, by using the phrase religious faith rather than just faith.
Religious faith is, literally by definition, based on direct spiritual apprehension of God and not based on proof or evidence. This is consistent with Hebrews 11:1 from the Bible which says: “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” If you compare the dictionary definition of religious faith, with Hebrews 11:1, you will see they are both in agreement about one thing: “assurance about what we do not see”, is the same thing as “based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.”
There is something vitally important about this for all people of faith to understand: Faith itself literally is the evidence for God; you need no other evidence or proof. Faith precedes belief in God, because it is the direct experience of and evidence for God upon which a belief in God is based.
The reason atheists don’t believe in God isn’t because of lack of evidence, though that’s what atheists usually say. Most if not all atheists are open minded to the extent that if there ever were overwhelming scientific evidence for God, they would use the secular kind of faith to believe in God. It’s because they don’t have religious faith in God that they don’t believe in God, absent scientific evidence.
As to my experience of religious faith, I find it to be an unreliable way to determine what is true, because many people can and do believe all kinds of outrageously wrong things through this same mechanism of religious faith. I find it best not to rely on religious faith in all matters. As to secular faith, that I have along with the rest of the human race.
Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
It's the totality of our relationship with god expressed by an attitude of complete trust and commitment to be controlled by god.
Blemish less trust/reliance/confidence.