RE: Question about "faith"
September 11, 2020 at 12:37 pm
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2020 at 12:49 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 10, 2020 at 7:54 pm)rockyrockford Wrote: If "faith" is defined as "complete trust or confidence in someone or something".(dictionary.com) As an atheist, do you have complete confidence or trust in anything?
The difference between an atheists faith and a theist's faith, in that context, is the difference between trust and confidence. We can all trust that some x was made to do y (or that some person x wants to do y)...but how many things (or people) do we have complete confidence in actually doing that y?
People and things made to do or who want to do some x can be trusted, and they can even be competent - and for reasons wholly unrelated to them, can fail. Complete confidence is bound up with omnipotence. Think of it like this. A professional driver in a purpose built car can avoid alot of collisions - but they can still be blindsided or rear ended or just generally wrecked. We could drop a bomb on them, see how their skills and gear work then. An omnipotent driver in an omnipotent vehicle could not, and the bomb would be ineffectual.
-and that's before we comment on misplaced trust and misplaced confidence, which all people engage in.
How about you? Laying aside misplaced feelings of trust and confidence, and assuming that you can very easily trust, do you have complete confidence in anything? What do you base that on?
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