re: #356 marjoriemoon

I think faith in God is no different than faith in anything else.

I have faith my husband won’t cheat on me. I don’t know that to be a fact, and in fact, one day I may be wrong. What’s so different than faith in God? I may find out one day I have it wrong, but today it is my truth.

Judaism, because it’s based on law, is very literal to me. It strives to make the determination between right and wrong. Emotions, not so much. Not that emotions aren’t part of the spiritual experience, they are, but they aren’t so much “right” or “wrong”. The law will always be the law. I.e., it’s wrong to murder and will always be wrong to murder.

It is possible to tangibly disprove your faith that your husband won’t cheat on you. It is not possible to disprove your faith that God exists. Thus, they are fundamentally different things. One type of “faith” does not have the same properties as the other.