Faith in the power of prayer … is … faith in miraculous power; and faith in miracles is … the essence of faith in general. … [F]aith is nothing else than confidence in the reality of the subjective in opposition to the limitations or laws of Nature and reason, … The specific object of faith, therefore, is miracle; … To faith nothing is impossible, and miracle only gives actuality to this omnipotence of faith[.] . Ludwig Feuerbach
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In this quote, the author is giving a definition of faith. He is saying that faith is not simply a belief in something that you can’t see or prove, but faith is a belief in something that you know to be true but which cannot be proven. Faith is a belief that cannot be proven because it is irrational. Yet, this definition is flawed.

Faith, as defined here, ignores the need for proof and depends upon irrationalism. In other words, faith is to believe something without proof. Finally, the author gives a definition of faith based on miracles without providing a definition for miracles. The effect of this flaw in the author’s thinking was to make the importance of faith in religion seem to be greater than it really was.

In other words, it could be argued that the author was providing an explanation for the importance of faith in religion when he should have been explaining why faith was important.

Source: The Essence Of Christianity

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