On Friday, September 14, 2012 7:10:17 AM UTC-4, rclough wrote: > > Hi Craig Weinberg > > Faith can be expressed as a belief, but faith itself is inner trust, > confidence, etc. > > Faith > > Noun: > > 1. Complete trust or confidence in someone or something. > 2. Strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on > spiritual apprehension rather than proof. > > Can't exactly the same thing be said of belief?
be·lief Noun: 1. An *acceptance* that a statement is true or that something exists. 2. Something one accepts as true or real; a firmly held opinion or * conviction*. Craig > > Roger Clough, rcl...@verizon.net <javascript:> > 9/14/2012 > Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him > so that everything could function." > > ----- Receiving the following content ----- > *From:* Craig Weinberg <javascript:> > *Receiver:* everything-list <javascript:> > *Time:* 2012-09-13, 13:21:50 > *Subject:* Re: Re: The poverty of computers > > > > On Thursday, September 13, 2012 8:43:39 AM UTC-4, rclough wrote: >> >> Hi Bruno Marchal >> >> The shared part of religion (or science) is called belief(s). >> They are exclusively in the fom of words. >> For example words from the Bible, and the Creeds. >> >> The personal or private part of religion is called faith. >> It is not belief, for it is wordless, is more like trust or >> motivation. >> Religion trusts its creeds, science trust the laws of physics etc. >> >> >> It sounds like you are talking about the particular forms of religion > though. In some other traditions, faith can be the public proclamation in > words and belief is the privately expressed as wordless. > > Craig > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/mUtjBvMhl8sJ. > To post to this group, send email to everyth...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-li...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/Qe9BSYnICrAJ. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
