Faith vs Belief: What’s the Real Difference?

I don't believe in affirmations at all because the word affirmation means I'm shoring up something I have no confidence in. Whatever you ask in God's name is granted if you have faith. Our thoughts are creating our experience. Mhm. That and that's a big one because it's the takes a while. If you don't know that one, it takes a while. Well, the Bible literally says when you pray, believe you shall receive and you shall, right? If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can ask a mountain to move if you have faith. Nothing's impossible for you. uh whatever you ask in God's name is granted if you have faith, right? What do you think people a question on that? What do you think uh people think when they read that and they go, "Well, I prayed for this mountain to move and it did didn't move and I have faith." Yeah. Like Christian, but if you're a Christian, you your your definition of faith and my definition of faith are completely different. Yeah. Yeah. As a as a Christian, yours is faith in Jesus and mine means faith is belief. And so people pray to Jesus hoping that it will happen. Right? It's like it's like the modern new age guys do the affirmations. Yep. Now I I don't believe in affirmations at all because the word affirmation means I'm shoring up something I have no confidence in. Why would you need to affirm it? If you're the creator of your experience, you declare things into your experience, right? And and what happens with prayer, it's this it's the you know, there's an old Catholic joke. Uh Bob goes to mass and he sticks his hands together and he says, "Dear God, please let me win the lottery." And a week goes by and he doesn't win the lottery. And the second week he goes, "Dear God, please I've been a good Catholic my whole life. Please let me win the lottery." Doesn't happen. Third week comes back, "Dear God, I've been a good Catholic my whole life. When my wife died, I didn't lose faith. Please let me win the lottery." Voice comes down from heaven. Bob, do me a favor. Meet me halfway and buy a ticket. There you go. Yeah, sure. We are we are part of creation. You know the the the Bible the bavia the the Buddha says what you think you become you create your world. The bavadita says thought by thought you forge your destiny. Therefore to keep your mind on the positive rather than the negative is considered the austerity of the mind. Right. Um Deart the philosopher said I think therefore I am. Shakespeare said there's nothing good nor bad but thinking makes it so. Right? Our thoughts are creative and it's found everywhere. And what's also interesting is our present moment is the only moment of creation and prayer and affirmation is praying for something ahead of themsel rather than believing it's being received in the now. And so that's why they never get it because they're it's praying for a future state. It's out of time, right? And we can we can't go to the store next Thursday right now. We can only go to the store right now, right? We never leave the present moment and the past is just a collection of present moment memories and the future is just a place where we set goals for the next present moment but we'll experience that in the present moment because we never leave the present moment. So everything we do in creation everything we do in in prayer and affirmation has to be believed is happening in the now for it to come to to creation. when when you experienced the shedding of fear in the in the past regression, did that shedding of fear carry over into your day-to-day? Yeah. Yeah, that that's I love that question because I am far more fearless than I than I ever was in life. But to be here is to experience fears of some kind. So, you know, to to be in the physical, you can't be perfect, right? So, you come here and you experience the fears. And I I honestly think that when you fully get rid of your fears, that's when you cross over and and you go to the greater awareness of everything. The Bu the Buddha literally said the secret to enlightenment is the eradication of fear, right? So it comes back to this idea that you know we we you know what was the last thing Jesua said? Love one another, right? Just be the love. Be be love. I think that's specifically why he's called John the beloved because the guy just kept saying be love be love be love. Right. Right. So, it comes down to we, you know, for me personally, I I I don't I'm the best way I can say this is be in the world but not of it from the Bible, right? I'm here and I and I watch the world as as this oneness, this non-duality. And I see people coming at me and calling me the Antichrist. And I recognize that's their fear, not mine. So it doesn't I'm not I'm not attached to because for me to be attached to it would would literally be empowering it.