RE: Peanut Gallery Thread for Explain This #1: Belief vs. Knowledge
January 5, 2018 at 12:03 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2018 at 12:11 pm by Whateverist.)
(January 5, 2018 at 8:07 am)mh.brewer Wrote: I wasn't smart enough to contribute.
I must be doing it wrong. I thought I was being smart enough not to try.
(January 5, 2018 at 11:20 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(January 5, 2018 at 10:15 am)mlmooney89 Wrote: Want may have been the wrong word. Still it's hard to differentiate because to me knowledge is also what you think. Lol this is harder than I thought it would be. It's like I know the difference in my head but can put it into words
I would say knowledge means it is a 100% obvious/ proven fact. Like, I have knowledge that I am female. The grass is green. 2+2=4. Etc.
Belief is when it is not 100% proven fact. I believe my husband loves me, I believe God exists, I believe we evolved from apes, etc.
I'd be curious to know Cath-y if you think "faith" is a special kind of "knowledge" or a special kind of "belief" or something else entirely? As a person of faith myself (just not involving gods), I come down on the belief side of that question. You?
