Chris Balcher M y faith was a lost cause over 40 years ago. In fact I wonder if I ever had any. It should activate me into doing something, in performing some definitive act. It's here, I think, faith comes into it. My beliefs imply some sort of ethical codex for my behavior towards the belief object and towards the world around me.
Faith is essentially a belief that our actions are founded on our beliefs.
It is the ultimate belief, if you like, that if we follow the ethical code based on our beliefs, then our actions will turn out 'correctly'. In other words, faith is the process by which we place our reliance on something or somebody other than ourselves. We may be unsure of what the ultimate results of our actions will be. By our faith we put our trust in something outside ourselves and delegate the ultimate responsibility for our acts. Faith implies the abrogation of our ego decision process in favor of a cooperative process involving both the object of our beliefs and ourselves and, very importantly, others who share our beliefs.