(May 12, 2018 at 7:49 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote:(May 12, 2018 at 7:13 pm)CDF47 Wrote: Thanks for the feedback. The Bible does not ask for blind faith. It asks to look at the creation for signs of the Creator. This is what I do which helps with my faith. I still have faith, it is just not a blind faith.
Faith is simply an excuse given to believe anything absent a reason. I take it as a matter of faith that the IPU exists and has my best welfare at heart. Prove me wrong.
There is simply NO position one cannot take as a matter of faith. I have faith that the FSM boiled for our sins.
Prove that wrong.
Ramen.
Faith is the simplistic abdication of reason and the ultimate expression of intellectual laziness.
Yet, Christians are not intellectually lazy in general. Some of the best scientists in history were believers, including one of the best of all time, Isaac Newton. Faith is a gift from God. There is plenty of intellectual study which can be had regarding Christianity from archaeology, to history, to science, to mathematics,......