Is Faith Evidence of Things Not Seen?

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Depending on your favorite translation, Hebrews 11:1 reads:

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

Some religious folks believe that their faith itself is evidence that what they have faith in is actually true. This is particularly the case, it seems, when it comes to supernatural claims or ones that don't have good evidence for them.

In my view, this is a manifestly absurd and circular position. People believe all kinds of things, some true, some untrue. The fact that I believe, for example, that the world is flat, is not evidence that I'm correct about that.

Do you believe faith is the evidence of things not seen? Why or why not?

Interesting, I never thought of the word "evidence" in there. G1650 - elegchos - Strong's Greek Lexicon (KJV)

Logically, no, having faith in something does not make it real. Anyone who has experienced mis-placed faith can attest.

 

[Willamena]

I'm not seeing an agreement, here.
Jesus Christ is a personage. He's not a feature unique to the thing being defined.
A little green man with no knowledge of Earth would assume "Jesus Christ" was a synonym or alternate word for "Faith. "

He's not faith. I'm missing your point.