RE: trancendent dice
March 7, 2009 at 8:53 am
(This post was last modified: March 7, 2009 at 8:53 am by fr0d0.)
"How on earth does belief without evidence=questioning?" - how DOESN'T it? LOL *winks*
"How do any of those mean "doubt" or "questioning"" - I was paraphrasing from another post. The opposite of faith isn't doubt, it's fear.
To have faith in something means you can't be absolutely sure. Otherwise you'd move from faith to fact.. something you need no faith for. If you're not sure of something then you are in doubt. To be doubtful implies questioning.
Faith implies trust. An object of faith becomes such when a level of trust is reached. In no way do you trust something you're scared of. Quite the opposite. Fear is the opposite of trust.
You can only believe in God through faith, yeah, because there can be no empirical evidence. To scientific questioning this is useless. And you'd be right to mock the non answer if it were a scientific question IMHO. So either it's a non answer or it isn't a scientific question. To admit that would be to admit that science doesn't have questions about everything we experience. Unless you know better....
"How do any of those mean "doubt" or "questioning"" - I was paraphrasing from another post. The opposite of faith isn't doubt, it's fear.
To have faith in something means you can't be absolutely sure. Otherwise you'd move from faith to fact.. something you need no faith for. If you're not sure of something then you are in doubt. To be doubtful implies questioning.
Faith implies trust. An object of faith becomes such when a level of trust is reached. In no way do you trust something you're scared of. Quite the opposite. Fear is the opposite of trust.
You can only believe in God through faith, yeah, because there can be no empirical evidence. To scientific questioning this is useless. And you'd be right to mock the non answer if it were a scientific question IMHO. So either it's a non answer or it isn't a scientific question. To admit that would be to admit that science doesn't have questions about everything we experience. Unless you know better....
