Faith is a person’s conviction that somewhere above him there is a powerful and all-encompassing force, to which the universe is subordinate. Any religion in this world is just a way to clothe the invisible into the shell, an attempt to make an image that cannot be described more concrete, to endow it with human qualities, intelligence and emotions.
Of course, in a broader sense, religion can be seen as a tool for managing society. But if we ignore the historical processes in which the clergy had an influence on the secular, economic and political aspects of life, only the inner feeling of man remains. The concept of spirit and soul is directly connected with faith. In many teachings, the spirit, unlike the perishable physical shell, is immortal. A man is afraid of the unknown, which awaits him beyond the last line, because the survival instinct is laid down by nature itself. Faith, however, gives a person hope that his life path will not end with the biological death of the body, it helps to overcome the fear of physical disappearance. The inner connection of a person with the supreme deity can be built on different conditions: on fear, respect, servile worship, almost equal partnership, love. Such diversity stems from the fact that faith comes in different ways and for various reasons. Someone from childhood is brought up in fear that someone mighty and all-seeing has been punished for wrongdoing. They tell someone about the mercy and forgiveness of God, his constant care for his earthly children. Others simply need a "scapegoat", the machinations of which can be attributed to their personal failures and mistakes. Faith is a powerful incentive for both inspired action and doomed inaction. This is a person’s attempt to determine his place in the structure of the universe and give meaning to his existence. A way to get rid of loneliness (God is around, he is always there) and the opportunity to feel like a significant cog in the general system of interactions of everything that exists in nature. This is the earnest hope that life is not a simple biological process, but part of a great spiritual sacrament.
