(March 26, 2015 at 4:50 am)robvalue Wrote: The first problem is professed beliefs versus actual beliefs.Thanks, that is another important difference between Christian "faith" and plain "faith" - especially for Protestants who follow Luther's "sola fide" teachings:
That is another point, I don't feel that every christian really cares about what is true, but rather what is comfortable.
Quote:The doctrine of sola fide or "by faith alone" asserts God's pardon for guilty sinners is granted to and received through faith, conceived as excluding all "works," alone.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sola_fide
A Christian is inclined to:
- profess almost 100% faith in denial of his/her doubts
- stubbornly refuse to acknowledge contrary evidence and reasoning
- be mortally afraid of losing faith and going to hell
So there are some very important differences.