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from the Urantia Book below
8. FAITH AND BELIEF
Belief
has attained the level of faith when it motivates life and shapes the
mode of living. The acceptance of a teaching as true is not faith; that
is mere belief. Neither is certainty nor conviction faith. A state of
mind attains to faith levels only when it actually dominates the mode
of living. Faith is a living attribute of genuine personal religious
experience. One believes truth, admires beauty, and reverences
goodness, but does not worship them; such an attitude of saving faith
is centered on God alone, who is all of these personified and
infinitely more.
Belief is always limiting and binding; faith
is expanding and releasing. Belief fixates, faith liberates. But living
religious faith is more than the association of noble beliefs; it is
more than an exalted system of philosophy; it is a living experience
concerned with spiritual meanings, divine ideals, and supreme values;
it is God-knowing and man-serving. Beliefs may become group
possessions, but faith must be personal. Theologic beliefs can be
suggested to a group, but faith can rise up only in the heart of the
individual religionist.
Faith has falsified its trust when it
presumes to deny realities and to confer upon its devotees assumed
knowledge. Faith is a traitor when it fosters betrayal
of intellectual integrity and
belittles loyalty to supreme values and divine ideals. Faith never
shuns the problem-solving duty of mortal living. Living faith does not
foster bigotry, persecution, or intolerance.
Faith
does not shackle the creative imagination, neither does it maintain an
unreasoning prejudice toward the discoveries of scientific
investigation. Faith vitalizes religion and constrains the religionist
heroically to live the golden rule. The zeal of faith is according to
knowledge, and its strivings are the preludes to sublime peace. paper 101 The Urantia Book
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Where Faith Begins
To follow the light of truth and speak by the card
To show oneself in ones true coulors from the bottom of your
heart
As the dial to the sun, as the needle to the pole
To paint in true coulors and keep peace with your soul
It’s not a blind bargain, building castles in the
air
Srike the iron while it’s hot, the plot will soon appear
Reason stops breathlessly WHERE FAITH BEGINS
Beard the lion in his den and the reason in your heart
Cheer on the high road, you’re the only proof you’ve
got
Listen closely as it shows you the map of losing fear
And leads yo uto that living love that’s always been so
near
It’s not a blind bargain, building castles in the
air
Srike the iron while it’s hot, the plot will soon appear
Reason stops breathlessly WHERE FAITH BEGINS
Like a watered garden, like a spring whose waters fail
not
Even your darkness shall be as noon day lot
You’re trusting till the end, trusting to a friend
Fought only one fight, the battle from within
It’s not a blind bargain, building castles in the
air
Srike the iron while it’s hot, the plot will soon appear
Reason stops breathlessly WHERE FAITH BEGINS
words and music by Mark Austin © 1992-2002
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