(August 9, 2012 at 2:27 am)Undeceived Wrote: Imagine a world with no faith, hope or love. A world of doubt, despair and hate.
Would you live in it?
When we talk of faith we mean 'informed faith', not 'blind faith.' If your spouse cheats on you but promises never ever to do it again, you better have faith she'll keep her word. If you don't you'll be suspicious your whole life and there will be a wall between you. As for hope, have hope in something or someone great. And love someone who will not disappoint. If we have faith, hope and love in Jesus Christ we never see the forms of faith, hope and love portrayed here. How sad if you think all faith is baseless and all hope is on thin air and all love undeservedly given.
Jesus died for our sins--we have faith this forgives us. He resurrected. We have hope we will resurrect too. He shows his love in sacrifice, filling us with love to pour out on others.
John 3:16
1 John 3:16
I understand where you're coming from and I actually agree in theory that having 'proper' faith, hope and love in Jesus would work. The problem lies in that your starting point is Jesus is the absolute truth. Then I see F+H+L as dangerous because you've boxed yourself into a mentality which in my personal opinion is harmful. Think of the pastor who died from a snake bite (the end of Mark says that shouldn't happen). Clearly that mindset doesn't work in reality but there's nothing that will make you snap out of it because of the nature of the 3 elements in that mentality.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
