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What do you believe blind faith is?
Believing something just because.
Faith is blind inherently. It's believing in something you cannot prove. There's not "blind" faith and "real" faith. Just faith.
Sarah2013 wrote:
…And how does that come about?
We are taught to have blind faith from birth. To believe our parents without any proof such as statistics or seeing the actual event. My daughter has never been hit by a car but she tries to stay out the street because I said she will get hit by a car if she doesn't. She still runs in the street though. She has been run over by a bike so when she sees someone riding a bike, she stands waaay clear. Lol, it's funny how she exaggerates it. I think the former is blind faith while the latter is 'eyes wide open' faith.
Believing what you see vs seeing what you believe
I don't think there's such a thing as having faith 2×7=14. It's a proven fact that 2×7 [using the numbers 2 and 7 with no suffix or prefix] will always equal 14. I think faith is something one has for something that isn't always true or can't be positively proven without arguement.
I have faith in the drivers here that if my light is green, they will stop at their red lights. So much so that I drive almost everyday.
I know that if I collide with another car 35 mph there will be damage done. That's not faith, that's a proven fact. But I have enough faith in the drivers here to believe that the chances of me getting hit at 35 mph are very slim.
thats not what blind faith is. its not talking about not being able to see god . we know god exists we see god through our life and his creation we know god exists we r blind to the fact that we may not know where he is lading us but we follow obediently. abraham n moses r the best examples they were 100 percent faith god existed but could not see n did not know where god was leading them they were blindly letting god lead them.
like a blind man, he knows there is someone holding his hand he can feel it n knows that person id there but he is blind. somhe doesnt know where he is being led too but has faith its the right way
Then I misunderstood the question. I thought she was asking about faith in general, not religious faith.
"A cat who sits on a hot stove will never sit on a hot stove again. But he won’t sit on a cold stove, either."
Mark Twain is the one famously credited for this statement.
Blind faith is having the intellect to understand the difference between when a stove will be hot and when it will be cold, but choosing instead to refuse any information whatsoever in order to protect one's "self-proven" assumption that stove tops are hot, thereby creating an environment in which one justifies never again sitting on a stove.
"I'm right, because I've proven myself right". Self-deception is the worst of all deceptions; its also the most binding because its internalized and self-reinforcing.
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