Saturday, March 11, 2006

Faith

Interesting.

The word “faith”, according to Encarta World English Dictionary, means, “belief in, devotion to, or trust in somebody or something, especially without logical proof”.

Yet, do you know that the word “faith”, comes from “pistis” of the Greeks, which means "belief based on knowledge," whether supplied by the evidence of physical or spiritual senses?

Interesting, is it not? How the meaning has evolved through times so far to being practically the contrary. So which type of faith do you subscribe to?

PS: If faith without knowledge is not really faith, does this mean that ‘blind faith’ is a contradictive term?

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