On 9/16/2012 8:45 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Stephen P. King
My take on the meaning of "knowledge of things unseen"
is knowledge of what is invisible at the moment.
Hi Roger,
I agree with this definition. It is equivalent to mine. What we
must understand is that "at the moment" is something that can be and is
different for each and every one of us.
Roger Clough, [email protected]
9/16/2012
Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him
so that everything could function."
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On 9/15/2012 8:57 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Stephen P. King
Faith is merely trust. I could have faith in a doorknob.
But I wouldn't try faith in Satan.
Even the doorknob would work to some extent, for trust opens you
up to authority, to submission, and submission
is the meat and potatoes of salvation. It's the
bending over that does the work. In the case of salvation,
bending over to Jesus.
Hi Roger,
I do not wish to sink into Scholastic style arguments, but I am trying to make a point here. Faith must
be anticipatory or it is not capable of being "knowledge of things unseen". If I where the one
entity in the universe then it would not make any sense to confine "knowledge of things not seem"
to a future tensed domain as anything that is beyond my direct reach would be in the domain defined by the
"not seen", but we appear to live in a universe where I can communicate with the fellow around the
corner with a radio and he can tell me all about that is happening beyond my local reach.
Thus if we are trying to be logically consistent in our definitions, we have to
restrict the domain of Faith to the common future of any that I might be able to
communicate with; "not seen" means not seen to anyone that I can communicate
with, no? =-O
Roger Clough, [email protected]
9/15/2012
Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him
so that everything could function."
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On 9/14/2012 7:09 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Craig Weinberg
Faith can be expressed as a belief, but faith itself is inner trust,
confidence, etc.
Faith
Noun:Complete trust or confidence in someone or something.
Strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual
apprehension rather than proof.
Dear Roger,
But not just "anything" it is contained to cover only that which is
possible in the future. Faith is forward projected belief. I have faith that the bridge
can support my weight because it is possible to falsify that belief when I am actually
crossing it..
Roger Clough, [email protected]
9/14/2012
Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him
so that everything could function."
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Time: 2012-09-13, 13:21:50
Subject: Re: Re: The poverty of computers
On Thursday, September 13, 2012 8:43:39 AM UTC-4, rclough wrote:
Hi Bruno Marchal
The shared part of religion (or science) is called belief(s).
They are exclusively in the fom of words.
For example words from the Bible, and the Creeds.
The personal or private part of religion is called faith.
It is not belief, for it is wordless, is more like trust or motivation.
Religion trusts its creeds, science trust the laws of physics etc.
It sounds like you are talking about the particular forms of religion though.
In some other traditions, faith can be the public proclamation in words and
belief is the privately expressed as wordless.
Craig
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