(March 8, 2012 at 10:10 am)YahwehIsTheWay Wrote: Thanks. That's what I was trying to get across. Faith is "The Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it". It not only has nothing to do with reason but it's a rejection of reason.
After all, if Jesus left proof of his divinity, it would require no faith to believe it any more than it would require faith to know the sky is blue or water is wet. And then where would Jesus be? He'd have no way of testing our faith on this world and thus no basis to decide who to torture for all eternity. DUH!
Apologetics is inherently hypocritical. It's trying to find reasons to believe what should be believed without reason and against all reason.
William Lane Craig said it best when he said the testimony of the Holy Spirit is such that he would continue to believe no matter how much evidence to the contrary was shown to him. What a shame he can't stop there and he has to indulge in the hypocrisy of pretending there are reasons to believe what he does.
Christians use reason too, just the Holy Spirit's reason instead of mankind's. The more you know Jesus, the more logical the Bible becomes. We never fully understand it, so we have to take it on faith with the Holy Spirit's help. If Christianity had no reason at all it would be called wishful thinking. It's not that you simply throw out contrary evidence. It's that, once you believe and put on spiritual goggles, you see the contrary evidence is nothing but lies. Apologetics is about eliminating hindrances that prevent people from finding faith--say, they read about God's love but want to ensure the verses about it were never altered.
