Having Faith...what does it entail??

[anatess2]

14 minutes ago, summer said:

Thank you anatess2 what you said definitely makes sense...for some reason I just have a hard time wrapping my head around it all. But I do agree very much with what you are saying. Thank you so much for taking the time to help me, I really appreciate it! Thank you!

I'm thinking you can benefit from praying specifically for perspective on things.  Also, it might also be beneficial to confide in your husband and get his take on the matter to gain perspective.  His priesthood authority can help you by putting trust on his advice on what things on your plate you need to hand over to God.

I have a problem with an imbalance too (my anger responses do not match the triggers - i tend to get really angry over things that are not worth being angry about) and my husband has been very patient in working with me to gain some perspective/balance.

[summer]

11 minutes ago, anatess2 said:

I'm thinking you can benefit from praying specifically for perspective on things.  Also, it might also be beneficial to confide in your husband and get his take on the matter to gain perspective.  His priesthood authority can help you by putting trust on his advice on what things on your plate you need to hand over to God.

I have a problem with an imbalance too (my anger responses do not match the triggers - i tend to get really angry over things that are not worth being angry about) and my husband has been very patient in working with me to gain some perspective/balance.

Thank you so much that is a great idea, you have been so thoughtful and kind! 

It is so weird because most of the time the things I worry about seen completely normal to me and it is hard for me to understand that everyone doesn't think the same way I do and worry about things the same way I do. My husband has told me many times that he feels so sorry for me that I have to live like this because he thinks it would be so hard. It is hard, but I don't really know anything different. I would love the weight of worry to be lifted because I know I would feel so much better...I am starting to notice that I have some depression as well.

That is wonderful that your husband has been able to be so patient with you and that he has helped you gain perspective. I am finding that asking others how I appear to them is what is helping me realize where I need help. 

 

[TeresaA]

6 hours ago, The Folk Prophet said:

You'll need to support this. I don't see it. How is being faithful separate from having faith? Being faithful entails belief, dedication, loyalty, trust, honor, obligation, obedience, etc. What's missing?

Many of the Jewish leaders at the time of Jesus were all that, yet they lack faith in him. They kept the Law perfectly, yet crucified the very Law giver. 

 

[The Folk Prophet]

7 hours ago, TeresaA said:

Many of the Jewish leaders at the time of Jesus were all that, yet they lack faith in him. They kept the Law perfectly, yet crucified the very Law giver. 

 

Non-sequitur. And also not true. Not in the least. They kept "a" law. They most certainly did not keep God's law. Saying that they "were all that" would be the non-sequitur, even if true. If they were dedicated, it wasn't to God (maybe to their own corrupt idea of God, but not to the true God). If they were loyal, it wasn't to God (once more, only to their own corrupt ideas), etc. But they also weren't all these things. They weren't honorable, trusting, obedient, etc. (except obedient to their own man-made laws and their own views of the letter of the law of Moses). They were prideful, arrogant, hypocrites who were pretending for the glory of man.

Edit: Let me be more clear on the non-sequitur thing. If I say that faith means loyalty and the clear implication is faith in God, hence loyalty to God, then if someone says, for example, that Satan has loyalty to evil, and Satan clearly doesn't have faith, therefore faith cannot mean loyalty, it's clearly skipping a basic step in the logic of the point.

Edited July 1, 2016 by The Folk Prophet

[Traveler]

There is no benefit in having faith in a false notion that is not real and true.  The term for such false and misleading faith is – superstition. 

Many Christians think of paganism as being a religion of vast superstitions but few know enough about the epoch of Baal to know how similar superstitions have found inroads into Traditional Christianity.  The same could be said of the Hellenization influences into the Jewish and early Christian societies.

 

The Traveler