| You would have different ways to establish what you mean by "belief".
And so without elaboration on how you intended to use the word "belief" we cannot really answer that question without giving a lot of examples about the behavior of belief, in all it's interpretational complexities.
In an anology belief is like a seed.
A tree poduces nuts that fall to the soil and take root to become trees, and that circular pattern goes around and around as long as the circle is not broken.
So it all depends on where you jump into that circle when determning what came first. At one point the seed is in the soil, at another point the seed is a tree, at another point the tree gives birth to the seeds (nuts) that hang on the limbs. There is no real starting point however if you stand way back and look at the complete circle fully connected.
So what you need to know about is the center point around which the tree-seed circular motion orbits around. That anonymous center we might call God. (spirit). |