Monday, January 4, 2010

The Definition of Faith

You can't touch it.
You can't see it.
You can't hear it.
You can't smell it.
To have faith is to believe in something that may or may NOT exist.
Personally, I have a hard time believing that Jesus Christ was the actual and literal Son of God. I have a hard time believing that he made the lame walk and the blind see and cured the lepers.
Jesus WAS a minister and taught people to be kind to one another, even when they are not kind to you. He taught people to think about their actions and to ponder any possible consequences of said actions. He taught a radical teaching system of that time.
He was the Founder of Catholicism in a land of Jews and Muslims.
It was this same church that came up with the "story" of Jesus as the Son of God and the miracles he performed because they didn't want to elevate a normal man. They didn't want to worship a normal man much less a normal Jewish man.
Jesus of Nazareth was a real man. Jesus Christ is a fabrication of the Church.

Yet, what happens when we die?
Do our Souls (if they exist) ascend to Heaven or descend to Hell? Is there such a thing as Purgatory, Limbo or resurrection?
Personally, I find it hard to believe that we can live an average of 77 years, accomplish things, become known or not, collect all of our stuff and then just die...and that's it.
No afterlife. No resurrection as a different person to live life all over again. No God. No Devil. No Heaven. No Hell.
Just life. And death.

I suspect just about everyone finds it hard to believe. Which is why we have Faith.

Faith.

Is it justifiable? Or a lie?

I suppose we all learn the answer to that question right after we die.