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Originally Posted by Bnonn  I quite agree that faith is simply belief—a justified and true belief. I was not intimating that it was more than that. However, regardless of your interpretation of Ephesians 2:8, the fact remains that the natural man cannot understand the things of God because he does not have the spirit of God (see my post above). Therefore, God must incline himself toward us before we can incline ourselves toward him. |
I'm not sure why you objected to my definition then... it was not meant to put faith in a perjoritive light. Faith is belief that does not hinge on emperical data. You add that it's a justified and true belief, which is compatible ... but a moot point.
It's silly though to attack science as a means to "prove" the correctness of your religion. Even if science is wrong, your religion might still be wrong as well. Had you considered that?
Worse, many if not all scientific pressupositions that you are attacking are also used in practicing Christianity. If you truly don't believe in the uniformity of nature, how do you know that what you read is an accurate representation of the data in the Bible? Perhaps the Bible is different each time you pick it up. Perhaps Satan fiddles with the light (transmitting the character data) before it enters your eye. I mean, if you want to be a skeptic, that's fine... but skepticism should be applied to a belief system uniformly .. not just to the beliefs that are different from your own. Otherwise, it's just bias.
Although I don't know what to make of your claims that you have supernatural powers of Biblical interpretation. I was a fundamentalist Christian for half my life. My skepticism about the Bible came directly from my interest in it... Claiming supernatural powers is a big red flag that you've closed your ears to anything anyone else has to say
