Faith or Trust

FAITH OR TRUST

"Faith is a reason grown courageous" - Sherwood Eddy

Faith is considered by many rationalists as 'an irrational belief in someone or something that is logically not possible'. According to me, they're correct. I mean when we have faith in someone, it is completely based on what we feel or think of that person which can sometimes prove lethal. It is the 'image' that we've created of that person in which we have 'faith'. The most common instance is: Faith in God. I mean no one has ever seen him, we've just read or heard about his 'deeds' but never actually been face to face with him, yet 95% people in the world have faith in Him. I would also like to add, being an agnostic myself, that some decades ago the same people also believed that the Sun revolved around the Earth. I don't intend to hurt anyone's feelings or belief's but I'm keeping my point just as a person of flesh & blood. It is said that "you can't really have faith in someone or something until it has done something extra-ordinary or dramatical for you", it seems true to me. Faith is never earned, its always created based on hypothetical sayings or beliefs. Those who heap all the un-explainable phenomenon into one word is what the world calls - 'Faith'. A 'faithful' person will never be able to explain the base of his 'faith'. But without faith a person's mind will always wander around. For instance: [1] A 'faithful' person is asked to cross a dark alley - here the faith of the person will give him a sense of security & hence he'll cross it without much problem. [2] In the similar alley an 'unfaithful' person is asked to do the same - here as the person is a skeptic, he'll have apprehensions & other sorts of thoughts in his mind, however it is not applicable to all, so it won't be cent-per-cent sure to bet that the person will cross it. Therefore, a little bit of faith is required, though not compulsory.

"To be trusted is even a greater compliment than being loved" - George MacDonald.

Then comes 'Trust'. Trust in someone which is also based on the image or character of a person but the difference between 'faith' & 'trust' is that while trusting someone the person admires the loyalty of the another one. It is the sheer dependence on someone with whom a person can actually feel secure, warm. Also, unlike faith, trust isn't limited between human being but all the living creatures on this planet. For example: [1] A dog 'trusts' his master that he'll be good to him in return the dog is loyal to him. [2] Any progeny(child) trusts his/her parents - here the trust is completely natural & based on no prior experience, the infant is assured that he'll be taken care of. Trust is the most important abstract feeling in any relation - be it parents/child, friends/friends, etc. But a person can never be forced to 'trust', it is something which gathers in mind slowly & gradually based on raw facts that he/she might've come across. Loss of trust cannot be fulfilled or substituted with any other thing or feeling. No one would allow strangers to touch them. So practically, a person craves for the 'trust' of another person thereby side-lining the 'faith' episode'.

'Trust is what keeps us from being a stranger'