Friday, January 6, 2012

Belief VS Faith

There was a tightrope walker, who was so good that he could walk between two twenty stories building on a tight rope with a balancing pole.Thousands of people would watch him perform his breathtaking feat. After he walked across the building he would have his assistant sit on his shoulder and he would proceed to walk across the building.
Everybody was amazed and gave him a thunderous applause.
He asked them whether they believed that he could do it again.
The crowd said, yes, we believe that you can!
After a while he asked the crowd again, Now, who wants to volunteer to get on my shoulder? With that the crowd became silent. This is the difference between Belief and Faith.

We believe what we see. But we do not have Faith in what one achieves.
The crowd believed in the tightrope walker because they saw him perform the feat. But when he asked them Who wants to get on my shoulder? Everyone was silent for the crowd had Belief but they did not have Faith.
This seems to clearly illustrates the difference between belief and having faith.

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