Fair enough, H! --Beth, Pseudo usenet cop Merlin MTB, BikeE AT, RANS gliss, Trek R200, Kickbike Owned by Kavik (Samoyed Boy) and Toklat (Keeshond Boy) Anchorage, Alaska
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 6:41 PM Subject: RE: Battleground God -- Talking God Outside the Universe > Well, then you come back to a definition of evidence. > > For me, evidence is what I have observed and studied about the universe, > etc. > > For others, evidence is a personal experience where the person feels God has > directly touched their lives, possibly through a miracle. I do not discount > that sort of faith as irrational. The evidence is more personal and less > provable in any manner a scientist would accept, but it's still evidence to > the person who has made that leap of faith. > > I believe God reaches people who open their hearts to belief through > whatever method might be most appropriate for that person. > > Of course, the less your rely on external evidence, the more likely you are > to make an irrational decision. There are people, I believe, who have some > sort of faith without any sort of rational reason for such belief. Faith, > then, is not necessarily rational, it's just that it is not necessarily > irrational. > > H. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: BethF [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:10 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Battleground God -- Talking God Outside the Universe > > > > For this to be a contradiction, you would have to believe that faith > without > > proof is irrational. > > I believe faith without evidence IS irrational - its faith because its based > on something other than evidence. Proof is like FACT - a rare occurance, > IMO. > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
