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  What difference would it make if people became more aware of how much they continually exercise faith in daily living? The video presentation suggested that people tend to make gods in their own image. What is the significance of this?

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  Dana Ra

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  02/16/2022 at 15:25

  If someone continually exercised faith in daily living, then they would draw closer to God and be in tune with His teachings. When one focuses on God and Scripture, they life becomes transformed and centered around honoring God and the Holy Spirit. If someone makes gods in their own image, then a path of self destruction is inevitable. It is so easy to idolize things on this earth or even turn yourself into an idol. Because Earth and man have fallen to sin, we can only rely on God for complete and whole satisfaction.

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  Randall Earwood

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  01/27/2022 at 13:31

  It would make us more cognizant of the fact that life without faith is impossible. This reality is great data for discussion with those who say “they aren’t religious” or “I’m not a person of faith.” Pointing out from a personal standpoint all of the ways/times we implement faith is a great data point and retort and could also provide an avenue for deeper discussion.

  There is great danger in making gods in our own image. In doing so, we do not have to face our sinful nature, our flawed character or wrong ideas and designs. We simply validate our wrong behavior and attitudes by attributing it to our god. The fact that our sinful nature is something we always battle, an immutable, unchanging God is a necessity for righteousness.

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  Sonya Shelton

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  01/22/2022 at 20:19

  If people became more aware of how much they continually exercise faith in daily living, they may be more willing to accept and understand the faith that it takes to believe in God. This realization would help them be less dismissive of the need for faith to know that God exists. Not sure what the significance is of people making God in their own image. I’d speculate that it points to a connection between God and humankind, or foolishness of “making” a God in the first place who should be omnipotent, or humankind’s need for something concrete and tangible to worship.
  *Side-note: A contemporary video that also has more diversity would be more relatable and awesome. Thanks! 🙂 *

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  Gwyn Genua

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  01/09/2022 at 13:14

  There would be a difference made if people became aware of how much they exercise faith in daily living, especially in regards to making gods in their own image. Dr. Willard describes the “natural and human world” as “overwhelming” and “oppressive”. Rather than focusing on specific Biblical truth that we sometimes don’t like to hear because it holds us accountable, we will use our humanly desires and inclinations to create a god that we are comfortable with. We try to turn Him into our image, rather than truly being reflectors of His image. However, through daily study and exercising our faith we can guard against this practice.

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  Shauna Mercier

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  12/27/2021 at 15:33

  If people beame more aware of how much they continually excercise faith in daily living they may be more open and led to the one true God. Faith in most of society takes work or so it seems. People don’t realize they are already doing the work to form an opinion. There is a universally similar moral code and if we are honest with ourselves, it leads back to God. When people realize they have already put in the work, they may be more open to the idea of a good God.

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  Why do those who are anti-religious seem to be unaware of their own exercise of faith? What rationalizations might secular people use to defend their views?

  Janel Hackney replied 2 months, 1 week ago 30 Members · 30 Replies

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  Rachel Theiss

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  11/15/2021 at 15:18

  People tend to generalize faith as what deity and set of morals you believe in. So when people hear this word they think of big picture things instead of small everyday things. Some of the things mentioned in the video (having faith in medicine you take, having faith in traffic laws being obeyed, etc.) are all things that we have been subjected to since we were very young. At this point, that exertion of faith may seem so rote that they do not even realize it as faith.

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  Susan Halsell

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  10/31/2021 at 16:46

  Anti-religious people don’t realize that their “lack of faith” is actually a faith. They may not want to believe in anything because they want their own freedom and they view having faith as being restrictive. They don’t want to delve into the idea of whether there is a God because they want to pursue what they want and they don’t want to think about the here and after. They may say that there isn’t proof in God and stop there because they don’t want to be convinced otherwise.

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  Melinda Sanchez

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  10/17/2021 at 02:23

  Anti- religious people also have faith that there is no God, because they also cannot prove that there is no God. The rationalization that secular people might use to defend their views is that creation cannot be proven and we can’t see God so how do people know He exist.

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  Cory Kettleman

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  09/24/2021 at 10:37

  I believe faith in things are just except or expected to happen. People are caught in their own lives to actually take time a sit to think about what they really believe in. Everyone expects to breathe, it comes naturally, it’s not something we have to work for. This one example of what I mean. People don’t sit and think or worry about breathing it just happens, it’s a blind faith.

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  Josiah Martinez

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  09/06/2021 at 11:57

  Individuals with secular views try to separate their anti religious views from their own views of the world around them. Although the reality is that, that very belief is a form of faith.

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