Is Faith always grounded in, and interlinked with, the notion of The Self?

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In other words: Does Faith make any sense without the underlying perception / consciousness of the "I" (i.e. the YOU, the Ego, the Self) who has the faith?

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Answer 1

Great question!

I believe so because faith is man's essence to be  existence. It is the very essence of the self not to be self-sufficient but to ex-sist, to stand out, to participate in God, in the neigbor, and in the world. This participation is not an accidental thing that may or may not be added to the self. It is an essential constituent of the self. Without it, man does not have a  real self but a figment of his imagiantion. When he concentrate his attention and his energy on this make-believe isolated self, then his real self - which is participation and being "out there" - is not developed, does not grow, and will soon be dehydrated and starved because of lack of the noursihment of reality.

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Answer 2

It Must. For without a sense of "Self", Faith has no grounds to Exist.

Answer 3

Always.

Without the notion of the self, or the knowledge of me myself and I, there is no faith because there is no awareness of things bigger than me myself and I.

When one becomes aware of self one is prepared to have faith in something larger.  When one becomes aware of self one realizes that there has to be more than just me.

Faith does not have to be religious.  We have faith that when we sit down on a chair that it will sustain our weight.  We have faith that science is true and we have faith that we will wake up in the morning alive.

Without faith it is impossible to believe in self.  If one believes in oneself it is because one has the faith to do so.

Answer 4

As I recall, you recently told me the answer to this one, so I won't "cheat". ;-)

But I will add a comment to the other answers: Faith is also meant to bring fulfillment to the Self. As in all facets of Life, to trade freedom for "security" is a poor choice.  Blind acceptance, let us term it "belief, without faith" is crushing, and stops all growth in "the dark forest"--I'm fond of the DH Lawrence take on the matter:

"This is what I believe:

That I am I.

That my soul is a dark forest.

That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest.

That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back.

That I must have the courage to let them come and go.

That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women.

There is my creed."

P.S. I place my faith carefully, but I have great faith in <I>. :-)

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Answer 5

Every human thought and emotion is, and must be, linked with awareness of the self.

If I love my wife, I am aware of the person doin g the loving - otherwise the sentence makes no sense. If you believe in God, the same applies; it's your faith, for your reasons, and the statement has meaning only with reference to your self.

Modern philosophy questions even the universal (objective) nature of mathematical deductions. So my answer is that our selves are linked with every perception, every statement, every emotion.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

This is the full basics of the in-fighting between the Islamic and Jewish cultures which is based on ownership and who has the right of way for the chosen faith with God. Then we can add that the monotheist Christians who are just as bad for this same type of alienation between the different views of this particular monotheist religion which has spread around the world condemning other non related religions of Christianity.