RE: Question about "faith"
September 17, 2020 at 10:27 am
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2020 at 11:21 am by John 6IX Breezy.)
Thank you for that resource.
Almost all the examples given in that 1828 dictionary can be loosely summarised as trust. They more precisely reflect the John Locke quote I already gave: faith is assenting to a proposition upon the credit of the proposer.
That's why faith is not a feeling or blind belief. Faith is trust. I trust my doctor because of his credentials. Moses trusted God to part the Red Sea because he saw the plagues fall. Faith is trust, and trust rests solely on the merit or promise of another person.
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If you think atheists can't alter the dictionary then you misunderstand how dictionaries work. They are descriptive not prescriptive. All atheists have to do is repeat and perpetuate that faith is blind belief amongst themselves (as they do} and sooner or later culture and the dictionary will begin to reflect that (as it has). Note that this old dictionary never says anything remotely close to the Dawkins definition of faith:
"Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.'
Almost all the examples given in that 1828 dictionary can be loosely summarised as trust. They more precisely reflect the John Locke quote I already gave: faith is assenting to a proposition upon the credit of the proposer.
That's why faith is not a feeling or blind belief. Faith is trust. I trust my doctor because of his credentials. Moses trusted God to part the Red Sea because he saw the plagues fall. Faith is trust, and trust rests solely on the merit or promise of another person.
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If you think atheists can't alter the dictionary then you misunderstand how dictionaries work. They are descriptive not prescriptive. All atheists have to do is repeat and perpetuate that faith is blind belief amongst themselves (as they do} and sooner or later culture and the dictionary will begin to reflect that (as it has). Note that this old dictionary never says anything remotely close to the Dawkins definition of faith:
"Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.'
