Gabriel Sechan wrote:
From: "Lan Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Faith is the firm belief in things for which we have absolutely no
evidence, and the rejection of all evidence to the contrary of these
things."
Not the way I want to live.
I've always wondered why religious people like faith, for just this
reason. To me faith isn't a good thing- ignoring counterevidence and
believing things with no evidence isn't laudible, its a sign of
insanity. I take things on evidence and probability, not faith.
God doesn't ask for blind faith. He certainly does not want us to
"ignore counterevidence" but to test that counterevidence to see if it
is reliable. Blind faith is certainly *not* what the Bereans were
commended for: "And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas
by night unto Berea: who coming there went into the synagogue of the
Jews. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they
received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the
Scriptures daily, whether those things were so." The Bereans were
commended not for blind faith, but for very well informed faith, for
checking out what they were told, not taking it at face value, just
because they were told so. God says "Come now, and let us reason
together, says the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be
white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."
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