SBT
SBT
Jul 23, 2017 · 2 min read

“Faith is simply having a belief or hope in something you can’t see or that doesn’t currently exist.”

I’ll go in direct opposition to this “definition”, as it is most likely your own personal definition (and you do use it frequently).

Before enacting a “power” word, such as ‘faith’, I like to research it, find out its origins and historical definitions. I do this mainly because the peoples who created the word and first started using it required a word/symbol to represent a yet-to-be defined context; I’ll assume there was at least a bit of serious thought behind the process.

In my recent research of ‘faith’, I discovered its foundations to be that of ‘confidence’ and ‘trust’ — not of “belief or hope”. Belief can be wrong and misplaced (e.g. racism), and hope is most often a weak last bastion (“I hope I win the lottery!”). Confidence and trust are far more solid footings.

Interestingly, you state: “Hope is what happens when belief is transformed through experience and consistency. This “hope” is another word for insane confidence and trust.” Your definition for ‘confidence and trust’ is Hope instead of Faith.

Right off the bat, the modern definition for hope is “a feeling of expectation for a certain thing to happen” (again, “I HOPE I win the lottery!”). If there is zero “experience and consistency” of winning the lottery, then there can be no hope by that definition.

Hope is expectation, faith is experience. I have faith in my skill and talent; I don’t hope I have skill and talent. Your usage is backwards.

The right words, used the right way, can be powerful tools, but one must understand those words (just ask Tony Robbins).

I definitely support your work and its trajectory, but I know you can be even more sharp and influential.

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