Monday, February 28, 2005
CS Lewis "Mere Christianity" – FAITH – Book 3 , Chapter 11
Two levels of faith - this chapter focuses on examining faith as the "developing of belief" as a way of thinking, a virtue, a habit. The next chapter deals with what it means to give up your life to God.
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1) How is faith a virtue if it just means you've used your mind to accept a set of concepts of "faith" as "fact"?
Logically speaking, everyone should "believe" (accept, act upon, rely on) what they understand as true.
But that doesn't take into account for emotion, for imagination.
2) What do you think of his examples - a) waiting for operation, b) trusting the untrustworthy
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Testing of faith.
3) Do you think people "conveniently" forget their faith?
4) what do you think of CS Lewis' definition of faith as "art of holding onto what reason has accepted"?
5) how do we deal with moods? How do we avoid being a "creature dithering"?
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Training of faith
6) What are the habits of faith?
7) What can habits do for your spiritual life?
8) What can habits NOT DO for your spiritual life?
9) What can failure teach us? a) What wrong idea can it give us? b) what right idea is "discovered"?
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1) How is faith a virtue if it just means you've used your mind to accept a set of concepts of "faith" as "fact"?
Logically speaking, everyone should "believe" (accept, act upon, rely on) what they understand as true.
But that doesn't take into account for emotion, for imagination.
2) What do you think of his examples - a) waiting for operation, b) trusting the untrustworthy
_________________________________________________________
Testing of faith.
3) Do you think people "conveniently" forget their faith?
4) what do you think of CS Lewis' definition of faith as "art of holding onto what reason has accepted"?
5) how do we deal with moods? How do we avoid being a "creature dithering"?
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Training of faith
6) What are the habits of faith?
7) What can habits do for your spiritual life?
8) What can habits NOT DO for your spiritual life?
9) What can failure teach us? a) What wrong idea can it give us? b) what right idea is "discovered"?
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To Robert
To me to have faith in God is to love God. Asking of Him little...thanking Him for EVERYTHING. Trusting Him to always to hold you in the palm of His hand even at the hour of death. My relationship with God at the present is one of thanking him for all that happens and trusting Him to see me thru times of despair that I do not understand how it can be His will... but in hind sight( the only time I can see His wisdom) it is!!
I believe in His Love is to believe, not as a fire insurance policy (I do not dare to divine what is to happen after life )but because I feel His Love now to extrapolate that it will be many fold then and would that not be Heaven. To me Heaven is attainable by many who know the Lord but what greater joy to Love Him dearly now.
To me to have faith in God is to love God. Asking of Him little...thanking Him for EVERYTHING. Trusting Him to always to hold you in the palm of His hand even at the hour of death. My relationship with God at the present is one of thanking him for all that happens and trusting Him to see me thru times of despair that I do not understand how it can be His will... but in hind sight( the only time I can see His wisdom) it is!!
I believe in His Love is to believe, not as a fire insurance policy (I do not dare to divine what is to happen after life )but because I feel His Love now to extrapolate that it will be many fold then and would that not be Heaven. To me Heaven is attainable by many who know the Lord but what greater joy to Love Him dearly now.
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