Why is faith a virtue? Why does believing doctrine XYZ make someone a better person ''ceteris paribus''?

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Christanon 07/05/19 (Fri) 19:30:47 88dc59 No.819286

Why is faith a virtue? Why does believing doctrine XYZ make someone a better person ceteris paribus?

Christanon 07/05/19 (Fri) 19:41:16 cc8f64 No.819288

Because of the first commandment

Christanon 07/05/19 (Fri) 20:48:59 88dc59 No.819294

>>819288

Christanon 07/05/19 (Fri) 20:49:31 88dc59 No.819295

>>819288

Ok. Suppose that before God are two people, P and Q, alike in every way except that Q believes strongly in the Resurrection whereas P does not. (So as not to give the wrong idea, suppose further that despite his faith, Q is still lukewarm.) Now, why does God credit Q as the more righteous?

Christanon 07/05/19 (Fri) 20:56:51 5b2c7f No.819296

>>819295

Because where truth dwells so does the Holy Spirit, therefore person Q is closer to God, at least in this matter.

Christanon 07/05/19 (Fri) 21:08:48 0d2146 No.819297

>>819295

Q follows the Truth of God. To te extent that P does not believe in the Resurrection he is gravely rejecting God, his message, revelation, the life of Christ and its purpose, etc. P does not believe because his heart is rotten, while Q, at least with regards to the ressurrection, does not reject what anyone would naturally accept.

Christanon 07/05/19 (Fri) 21:14:00 bfb6df No.819299

faith is trust in God. For instance, when God promised Abraham in his old age that he would have many descendants, he believed in him, and it was credited to him as righteousness. Abraham had faith in God so that even when he told him to sacrifice Isaac, Abraham still believed that God would provide him with an heir, even if he sacrificed the child that Sarah gave birth to in her old age. This is why it is a virtue, because it is having trust in God. Read Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkgaard if you want to know more.

Christanon 07/05/19 (Fri) 23:53:08 42b796 No.819324

>>819299

This is somewhat true but incomplete. Faith is a form of knowledge given directly from God. It's more perfect than knowledge through reason because reason is fallible and you can always make mistakes. Faith is the experience of actually "Seeing" something. Reason is like deducing that this happened because of evidence x,y and z, which you can always make mistakes. Which is why faith is higher than reason. It only makes sense that God created another pathway to provide knowledge since we know reason is fallible. Faith is a direct pipeline of knowledge. I know what happened on my 10th birthday. I don't need any science or nonsense to know what happened. I was there. That's "faith" if you see something through faith you see it. You don't need to deduce oh well this or this must have happened type nonsense lol.

Christanon 07/06/19 (Sat) 05:50:25 88dc59 No.819360

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Thanks for the answers guys. To top them off I will leave this quote here and be on my merry way, satisfied.

Christanon 07/06/19 (Sat) 05:51:37 88dc59 No.819361

Meant to quote >>819296