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Religion and Faith. Are they the same or are they different?
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<blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 1117809" data-attributes="member: 22662"><p>Oh, that's simple. </p><p></p><p>Religion is a group expression of a common thread of faith. An individual's faith, what they truly hold dearnand true, will be borne out in their daily lives, both seen and unseen. Much of that will fall far short of the ideal.</p><p></p><p>Saint Paul wrote stirringly on this. To know what ones faith demands and yet to do otherwise is not something to be contemptuous of but rather acknowledged as truly human. In time, life challenges the failure in the individual and through eerosion of self will (sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, sometimes never) ones faith and subsequent actions are molded.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>I stop short of ever saying I love God because of one line in the Bible. "How can you say that you love me and not do as I command?". I think it is a question that commands only silence and reflection as ananswer. Anything bet that ventures into the trap, "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.". Nope. It's a lifelong struggle and not one taken lightly. Continued resistance to the known will of God in a persons life will become maddening.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bbsam, post: 1117809, member: 22662"] Oh, that's simple. Religion is a group expression of a common thread of faith. An individual's faith, what they truly hold dearnand true, will be borne out in their daily lives, both seen and unseen. Much of that will fall far short of the ideal. Saint Paul wrote stirringly on this. To know what ones faith demands and yet to do otherwise is not something to be contemptuous of but rather acknowledged as truly human. In time, life challenges the failure in the individual and through eerosion of self will (sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, sometimes never) ones faith and subsequent actions are molded. I stop short of ever saying I love God because of one line in the Bible. "How can you say that you love me and not do as I command?". I think it is a question that commands only silence and reflection as ananswer. Anything bet that ventures into the trap, "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.". Nope. It's a lifelong struggle and not one taken lightly. Continued resistance to the known will of God in a persons life will become maddening. [/QUOTE]
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