LDSToronto Posted July 2, 2011 Posted July 2, 2011 I like elguanteloko's definition of faith; I'd suggest that E has gotten the definition right, and it is in line with the exposition on faith found in Alma 32 - "for if a man knoweth a thing he hath no cause to abelieve, for he knoweth it"In order to have faith in some thing, one has to acknowledge the very real possibility that the object of faith can be entirely false. In order to have faith in God, one has to acknowledge the possibility that there is no God. It's almost a quantum view of faith - one has to acknowledge the possibility that the object of faith is both true and false. Holding only one of those positions insinuates knowledge, or as E has stated, certainty, and this is decidedly, not faith.H.
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