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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

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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