Faith: Many people, especially the religious, believe it's necessary to have "faith" or hold certain principles as unquestionably true to qualify for earthly benefits and thereafter. This has some merit to maintain quality and integrity, yet such a premise seems in need of reconsideration: Faith requires a consistency of experience that warrants having trust in someone or something, such as earned faith in one's parents or natural laws, yet to follow someone or something more or less blindly regardless of contestable ambiguity not only can place oneself at risk, but others and unrealistic and suspect, although it's only natural to want to establish order and security out of chaos - Still, if I ever found myself in heaven I would with certainty follow faithfully having observed it necessary to perpetuate the greatest harmony.

In all honesty given what I actually know and experienced I can presently have "faith" in goodness for its own sake, (being by its very nature self-affirming and perhaps a prerequisite for genuine understanding and "salvation") - Could any ideal or "God" worthy of devotion not embrace anything so simple yet profoundly comprehensive, universally applicable or inherently ennobling?

Suffering and faith - Is it necessary? From a greater perspective perhaps the reason for what we observe and experience as injustice is indeed just, considering learning valuable lessons to further awareness, compassionate affinity and thereby evolvement the greater natural or spiritual priority - For just as others suffer directly or indirectly presently, in past lives or otherwise, to advance our own humility and growth, in turn we may then un-be-known suffer for others to further greater understanding and well-being. Commitment to such sacrifices for the greater good may have been made by choice in the interim during higher levels of awareness.