RE: Question to Christians re humility
October 5, 2012 at 4:43 pm
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2012 at 4:46 pm by genkaus.)
(September 30, 2012 at 6:23 pm)Doubting_Thomas Wrote: One of the criticisms we often see levelled against Atheism, and particularly scientifically argued atheism, is that the doubters are "arrogant" and should be more "humble".
What is really meant by this, is there a Christian-specific meaning to humility? We all know the dictionary definitions, but I'm confused how any such criticism isn't equally or more-so applicable to the religious position?
How can complete confidence in some interpretation of the bible, which spells out so many amazing things which we are told are factual, be any more humble than the atheist position of evidence based reasoning? The reasoning atheist acknowledges the caveats of what they 'know', whereas the faithful Christian is in no doubt about the existence of god.
Sorry if this is an old topic done to death, but I am curious and never heard the Christian side of this.
I think the argument is simple. "Trusting your own judgement based on what you can see and verify is arrogance - because then you are arrogantly declaring that you have the capacity to tell what's true and what's not. The humble thing to d is to not trust your own judgment and take someone else's word for it."
(September 30, 2012 at 7:28 pm)Drich Wrote: The reasons the Atheist knows nothing of God and the reason the Believer is in 'No doubt' is because one humbles himself before God and allows God to lift him up, and the other expects God to humble Himself before the atheist and then perform God 'tricks' to prove Himself before man.
A perfect example of what I just said.
