What is FAITH? a noun or a verb?

"Faith" is a noun, but actually, it should be an adjective.

I knew a girl named Faith once. So, I say it is a proper name.

Well I don't know about you but I can't remember the last time I was faithing.

Faith is a noun.

The verb would be the phrasal verb "have faith" or perhaps you would use an alternate verb like "trust".

Faith is a noun.... plain and simple

"It ain't supposed to make sense; it's faith. Faith is something that you believe that nobody in his right mind would believe."-- Archie Bunker

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

I think you are confusing faith with beer.

ebrown is absolutely correct. LOL

Hi, everyone.

Hi Frank.

I still am not sure...but I am tending toward what Craven said...that it is a noun.

I have to acknowledge, however, that I see a lot of verb in it.

I tried substituting a synonym to see if it made it any easier...but I ran into an even more difficult problem in that I wasn't sure if the proper substitution would be "bull-headed"...or..."bull-headedness!"

If "bull-headedness" is the better...it is a noun. If just plain "bull-headed" is your choice...it probably is closer to a verb.

So which should it be? "I am going to be bull-headed on this issue"...or..." there is a great deal of bull-headedness in me on this issue."

I don't know! And I am begining to feel that it really doesn't help to sub the synonym.




Anyway...whether it is a noun or a verb....it (faith) certainly is the most over-rated of all human activities.

How about faith-based religion?

You mean there are non-faith-based religions?

I dunno. Is buddhism faith-based?

I'm not even sure it's a religion.

But if it is...or if parts of it are...I'll bet you will find lots of "faith" in there.

It's listed as one of the "religions of the world."

Confucianism

(knfy´shnĭzm) , moral and religious system of China. Its origins go back to the Analects (see Chinese literature), the sayings attributed to Confucius, and to ancient commentaries, including that of Mencius.

Early History and Precepts

In its early form (before the 3d cent. ) Confucianism was primarily a system of ethical precepts for the proper management of society. It envisaged man as essentially a social creature who is bound to his fellows by jen, a term often rendered as "humanity," or "human-kind-ness." Jen is expressed through the five relations-sovereign and subject, parent and child, elder and younger brother, husband and wife, and friend and friend. Of these, the filial relation is usually stressed.

The relations are made to function smoothly by an exact adherence to li, which denotes a combination of etiquette and ritual. In some of these relations a person may be superior to some and inferior to others. If a person in a subordinate status wishes to be properly treated that person must-applying a principle similar to the Golden Rule-treat his or her own inferiors with propriety. Correct conduct, however, proceeds not through compulsion, but through a sense of virtue inculcated by observing suitable models of deportment. The ruler, as the moral exemplar of the whole state, must be irreproachable, but a strong obligation to be virtuous rests upon all.

The early philosophers recognized that the epochal "great commonwealth," the union of mankind under ethical rule, would take a long time to achieve, but believed that it might be constantly advanced by practicing the "rectification of names." This is the critical examination of the degree to which the behavior of a functionary or an institution corresponds to its name; thus, the title of king should not be applied to one who exacts excessive taxes, and the criticism of the undeserving claimant should force him to reform. The practice of offering sacrifices and other veneration to Confucius in special shrines began in the 1st cent. and continued into the 20th cent.