Knowledge And Faith Research Paper

There is so much negativity and judgement in this world. There needs to be more believers in Jesus Christ. Having more believers will make things better. It will also help to guide other people that need guidance on the right path to righteousness. There are so many people that do not understand the truth about living the right way when it comes down to following Jesus Christ. People who are surrounded by a church community, will have an easier life being a Christian, will be guided by the Ten Commandments, and will learn to have a loving heart for others.

Faith is far from being easy. If your faith is placed in something you can’t see, then it’s usually hard to act on that faith unless you are deeply rooted and involved in it. Actions prove how much faith you have. Without proof, your declaration of faith does not mean much.

Look back twenty-five years ago, on same sex marriage was a ?thought experiment? in our culture. The idea promoted primarily by those on the left and other cultures who?noticed?? amount of?boundaries to personal freedom and behavior. (April 6th, 2013 Dr.Jim Eckman).Just Seventeen years ago Congress pass a Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) which define a marriage, as a union between a man and women. In recent years, the debate has moved beyond questions of individual rights and proper family formation to include questions that pit religious liberty against non-discrimination policies. While all laws legalizing same-sex marriage contain some conscience protections allowing churches and other religious groups to refuse to marry gay and lesbian couples,

Every December, the alleys which engrossed the basilica would be enlightened with fluctuating lights and colorful banners, and the winter of 2012 was no exception. Before the start of every new year, my family and I would always return to our hometown in Mexico and Celebrate Christmas with my relatives. The main element in our trip would always be to visit the local Virgin Mary (the Virgin de San Juan), which was housed in an extravagantly beautiful basilica. Our hometown had been erected around not only the Virgin’s “house”, but also the Catholic faith.

If we are put in a role to watch over others we should lead with a positive guidance because we are assigned the responsibility as their caregivers.

One Saturday night, 17 year old Nellie Cameron sat at home watching Netflix with her cat Darling. Nellie’s phone started to buzz. When Nellie reached over to grab it, Darling jumped off and pranced away. When Nellie saw that it was her best friend Jacinta Emerson, she paused her show to read the message.

The theory that resonates with me the most is the Faith Perspective Theory. I agree that we can only achieve eternal live and happiness when we connect deeply with our God. In the Christian point of view, we can take in consideration Catholic saints like St. Francis of Assisi of whom his connection with the divine is believed to have even physical magnitudes such as stigmata.

God calls each of us to be a light to the world through actions, thoughts, and words. But this is not a journey meant to be accomplished alone. When I began searching for colleges I knew it was essential to find one with a community of individuals likeminded to myself. My faith journey has been a great asset in my academic life. I have learned to grow in knowledge of the world without losing that essential knowledge of God. As I move on to the next stage in both my academic and religious life, I would be honored and thrilled to grow in a place where God is as important in the school as He is to me. PBA offers the experience of learning while being surrounded by other Christians. There is such an obvious difference when a society has a unifying goal to serve God. That goal changes people, draws them together, and allows them to accomplish incredible things. I believe going to PBA will enhance my faith journey tremendously.

The relationship of faith and medicine can best be described using a concept the Isaac Newton attributed to physics, that being that every action has an equal and opposite reaction(Newton). To this extent one faith became intertwined with medicine it was held in a highly religious setting and context. As medicine evolved into its own right, starting around the end of the medieval era, it shifted to go as far towards being a secular institution as it once was one associated with faith. In the twentieth century medicine has begun to move back towards due to the advances in psychology as well as studies on placebo effect and the movement to treat the person and not just the disease. It is to this extent that many current medical practitioners

In the story “Reason and Faith” Clifford is trying to convince the people towards that forming your beliefs in the right way is a huge deal to ethical importance. He starts off with an example that a ship owner knows that his ship might not be exactly sea worthy and might need to be overhauled. Before he watches his ship take off into the ocean blue he talks himself out of his doubts about his boat. He remembers the times that the ship has been out and made it safely back countless number of times so why not one more he says. Later the ship sinks mid ocean and everyone aboard drowns. The owner of the ship is responsible morally of all the deaths that happened because of the boat. His beliefs steered him in the wrong direction even with evidence

Intro: In practice faith is limited to one religion, and by restricting a person’s understanding to one set of beliefs, a person is unable to experience life entirely. Religion is interchangeable, and provides information the other may lack, but believers tend to limit and turn people away from their religion from fear of new concepts. The exclusive disciples believe their ideals are the only ‘truth’ and that nothing can be gained from the other religions. Followers of one faith tend to have prejudice and preconceived ideas towards people of other faiths and beliefs and their stubbornness and wariness leads to not wanting to understand an opposing belief when they could have learned and grown. By connecting to other people and religions, the community as a whole would be able to learn and develop into more sympathetic and empathetic people had they not sectioned themselves into pre-designed circles of judgement and narrow-mindedness.

“[Faith] integration is concerned with integral relationships between faith and knowledge, the relationships which inherently exist between the content of the faith and the subject-matter of this or that discipline; such connections do not have to be invented or manufactured. But they do need to be ascertained and developed; unless this is done faith and knowledge may appear to be, and for practical purposes may be in fact, alien and unrelated to each other. Finally, faith-learning integration is especially concerned with the disciplines into which our knowledge is organized; the same concerns of subject-matter and methodology which lead to the distinction of disciplines also dictate that, initially at least, faith-learning integration is best pursued at the level of particular academic disciplines.”

The concepts of religious faith, theology, belief and spirituality are all interconnected and very easy to get mixed up. This is because they all have something to do with the other. Richard P. Mcbrien explains how religious faith, theology, beliefs, and spirituality are all connected. Theology follows faith and belief follows Theology. Faith is our personal knowledge of God through human experiences and our openness to his love. Theology is our understanding of faith as revealed by God and our articulation of it. Beliefs are accepting these theological conclusions as true even without clear and convincing evidence. Spirituality is the practice of these beliefs, letting the spirit guide ones life. Although it’s easy to mix up the meaning of faith and belief or get confused the difference in understanding faith in Theology and being filled by God in your spirituality it’s pretty easy to grasp once you see how each influences the other.

Many individuals question the belief of God, and the faith that so many people place in Him. What is not recognized is that people place their faith in others and in things of this world on a day-to-day basis. When we get into a car, a plane or a boat we trust and believing that this vehicle, pilot and this captain is going to take us to the destination we are trying to reach, we think the person behind the wheel has the power to get us there. It is not us who can take us to our endpoint, but God who allows us to get there. There is no easy route to where we are going; no gps can take us to the path of salvation. The only way to our endpoint, landing pad or treasure is through Faith. Faith in the Father, son and The Holy Spirit. If someone felt in their heart that they would like to accept Jesus as their personal savior, I know that He will welcome them with love, mercy and opened arms and they shall be saved. His love, mercy, and Salvation are sufficient for all.

     There are many contentions our present world has faced that require a thorough thought process in order to represent a side of the argument. We see that there are many different authorities that tell us we should be thinking in certain directions. However, most people need to realize that influence from these different sources such as academics, politicians, companies, global organizations, media, and others in this nebulous category, don’t always steer us in the write direction. Maybe they can provide us with knowledge about a certain problem, or information regarding each side, but when it comes down to the bottom, belief and knowledge seems to be what most people turn to. We see many people opposing