Religions are based on faith.
The word faith derives from the Latin term fides and allows us to name what a person or a community believes in . It also refers to a feeling of certainty and the positive concept one has of an individual or something.
For example: "I have faith that we will win the game" , "The only thing that kept me going was my faith in God" , "Men of faith can achieve incredible things" , "My uncle professes the Christian faith" .
Faith, on the other hand, is the affirmation or confirmation that something is true or the document that ratifies the validity of certain things ( "The notary attested to the act" ). In this specific case, we can emphasize that today there is precisely a profession whose objective is that the person who develops it has the function of attesting to wills, contracts or documents of a similar nature, following, of course, the existing regulations and legislation. about it in each country. We are talking about the notary.
Origins of faith
Among the factors that intervene in faith, morality , reason and feelings appear.
We speak of moral force when faith is driven by the fear of divine punishment or by the ambition to achieve a certain prize. The rational force, on the other hand, is nourished by precepts that are mixed with evidence from past times. Finally, sentimental or emotional strength appears when faith has its starting point in a desire and contributes to improving the subject's self-esteem.
A person's faith can lead them to pray in the hope of achieving something that seems unattainable.
The basis of religions
Faith, in general, is constituted as the basis or support of religions , since the faithful trust in the norms that are provided to them by religious authorities.
Thus, as we explained, it is essential that any believer of a religion has faith in its top leaders, in the statements they make and in the doctrines they preach, because only then will they be able to accept and abide by them. And even more so taking into account that any type of religion is based on elements, situations and facts that cannot be demonstrated because if you do not have faith, you will not be able to believe in everything that is praised.
All of this is a good example that any religion escapes reason, since its central pillars are manifestations or events that cannot be explained scientifically or that are simply the result of a written tradition. In this sense, it should be noted that an example of this is the miracles that are spoken of in any doctrine, they are facts in which the faithful believe because they have faith that they have happened as reported.
Use of the term faith in different contexts
It is important to highlight a phrase that is used on many occasions: "Faith moves mountains." With this sentence what is intended to be expressed is that if someone hopes to achieve a goal that seems impossible but believes in being able to achieve it in a forceful way, they will surely end up achieving it.
The concept of faith can also be used in combinations with other words: good faith is linked to honesty and righteousness; bad faith , on the other hand, includes malice and perfidy. Errata can also be mentioned, which are mistakes and errors recognized by a media outlet and amended with the pertinent clarifications.