Posted by IsoM on October 21, 2002, at 15:42:11
In reply to Re: Agreement or Confutation, posted by Dr. Bob on October 18, 2002, at 11:25:38
Back to the discussion but I won't stay long.
There's diff ways to view the definition of faith. All I wanted to have made known that for those who value logic, rational thinking processes, empirical evidence, & credibility (in short, a scientific view), faith does NOT have to be a dirty word. It doesn't have to mean closing your eyes to truth & facts. It doesn't mean having to suspend reason. And it doesn't mean that one needs "blind" faith. It means looking at & gathering the available evidence & basing your faith on that without ignoring other evidence.
If someone wishes to believe what's incredulous to me because it 'feels right' to them, that's fine. But I don't wish to see just that one view of faith as defining all of what faith SHOULD define. That's why in my first post, I wrote what the actual Bible's definition of faith meant & that it can be quite different from what most people think of when they hear the word 'faith'.
"You can fool some of the people, all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time." Eventually, the truth will be known & that which is false will be discarded. Endless debates that go nowhere are tiresome (not that I'm implying by that that it was a bother though). I have nothing more to say.
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