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Having faith means coming to a conclusion without examining evidence or using logic. You simply accept what your religious teachings say is true, without critically examining those claims. There is no evidence of the supernatural anyway. Faith
DOES NOT mean jumping to a conclusion without examining the evidence. It
DOES mean trusting something of which you don't have complete &
full knowledge. When a person sits in a chair for the first time, he
doesn't know without doubt that the chair will hold his weight. He
observes the chair, judges it as sound based on what he sees and his
past experience, then sits down. He has faith that the chair will
support him. Everyone exercises faith like this every day. The question
is whether the evidence upon which that faith is based is sound.
(I only want to believe what’s true). Christians
are often asked to produce some "evidence of the 'supernatural'
Well the Bible is full of eyewitness accounts of supernatural phenomena.
As someone who was a Police Officer for ten years I’m very clear that
eyewitness accounts are considered admissible in a court of law. The
eyewitness' testimony is judged as trustworthy based upon their ability
to recollect what they saw they saw & heard, their grasp of the
facts. The
interesting thing is that even theological sceptics agree that the Bible
contains historically accurate data. They go a long way with that.
Guess where they draw the line? They will accept the Bible as
historically accurate and the writers as credible witnesses unless the
text being discussed refers to a miracle or an unexplainable wonder.
Those are the parts they deny, this is known as an antisupernatural
presuppostion. E.g. John 9- Jesus heals the man born blind. The Pharisees sit on judgement on the miracle, pretend that they’re being fair judges, but they’ve already made their minds up: they’ve made a rule that if anyone says Jesus is the Christ, he will be thrown out of the synagogue. The blind man uses simple eyewitness testimony in answer to their insults and philosophical chicanery- “I once was blind, now I see.’ They bodily threw him out of the temple! Some people have already made up their minds about God, about Jesus, about the evidence of whether the supernatural exists. They say ‘Don’t bother us with the facts, we’ve made up our minds.’
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