How do you see faith as being different to trust?
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trust is much more fragile, easily shattered and much more difficult to restore once it is damaged. faith is more substantial, secure. faith is choosing to believe in spite of doubt. good question +++++
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For me trust is something I have only in people and in myself, faith is something I have in myself and others and it involves God.
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I see trust as being more tangible than faith
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"Faith" is believing in something that has no observable/knowable proof. "Trust" can be earned by experiences you have over time..you learn to depend on someone by seeing how he/she has reacted to situations. When you "trust", you can point to specific examples of someone's being trustworthy. When you have "faith" it is beyond proof. :)
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They are very different as to purpose or intent, even though they both rely on facts and experience. For one thing, faith isn't blind. It is the "assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld" as Hebrews 11:1 puts it. It's not credulity, or just a believing in something without evidence, but it requires knowledge, acquaintance with evidence. And you have heartfelt appreciation for that evidence. It's like a dear friend who always is there for you and you know that since they helped you every time, you know they will be there. That's faith. it's loyalty and allegiance to something or someone because of that evidence. It encompasses the past as well as the future actions. Trust is like a sense of assurance you have, it's a safe feeling, it throws out fears and you feel safe, but there is an element of taking a risk when you trust. You are making yourself vulnerable because it is only made sure by what will happen in the future.
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faith is belief that is not based on truth. trust is the result of having faith and seeing a truth come to pass, which usually will increase one's faith.
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Faith is the emptiness of not knowing and the fulfillment of not needing to know. Trust is learning to have faith based on tangible evidence that become known over time, creating evidence that is built on substance and motivating a person to believe. You have faith in God because you have chosen spirituality or religion. You trust your friends because they have proven themselves worthy of your trust.
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Trust can easily be lost .. Faith can hardly be lost .. ________ Thats a very good question love =D
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Faith, like love, is blind. Trust is something that can be betrayed.
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You don't need reasons to have faith.. it's just believing. Trust can be broken whereas faith cannot.
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Faith is blindly believing in something that you know is not true. Trust has to be earned by actions of others over time and much harder to have.
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There's more "reality" to trust.
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Trust to me is based on a person's actions. Faith is based more on a situation than another's actions.
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Faith is not seeing. Trust has to be seen!
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Trust is more rational then faith.
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Trust is built mostly from experience. Faith is believing despite experience.
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I think trust is a kind of faith. Faith can be drawn from believing (and not vice versa, as many imply in a religious sense). You have to already believe in order to access faith. Likewise, trust seems to imply a prior belief. Trust, to me, has more of a connotation both for expectation and for risk, than does faith in general. Something is at stake when you trust, but you are not worried about it.
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