RE: Question about "faith"
September 24, 2020 at 6:29 pm
(This post was last modified: September 24, 2020 at 7:08 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(September 24, 2020 at 5:33 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: I think we are all well aware that people's thresholds differ. But the problem is, when someone has differing thresholds for the same categories of claims.
It all depends how you place the boundaries between categories. Through one lens Christianity and Hinduism fall under the same category (religion); but under a different lens they do not (monotheism vs. polytheism).
Most religious people are theists first and foremost. Which is to say all theistic religions meet their theistic threshold. A Christian agrees that what Zeus represents in terms of a deity is correct; but the specifics of Zeus fails to satisfy other thresholds that Christianity apparently does.
There's hardly such a thing as an objective category. They are subjective; and they might be divided up differently depending on the person.
P.S. to anyone reading: I've moved past the faith discussion. These latest posts are about people's beliefs in God's existence, not about faith.