(February 24, 2013 at 11:49 am)fr0d0 Wrote: You don't seem to know what faith is, with respect Paul.
To have faith, according to the Xtian tradition, you must have information that you accept to be true. You must trust that information, and you must then also act upon it. With all three, you can then say that you have faith in God.
The less physical evidence you have, the greater intellectual understanding you will need.
well i know what faith is for one thing.
Youre replying to this thread and saying its a fail to say religious people seem to have doubts about god because you say this is obvious, without a doubt you wouldnt need faith.
This doesnt make sense to me because faith is trust and confidence, doubt is lack of trust and confidence, so its like saying i lack confidence and trust in something so thats why i need to have confidence and trust in something.
But apart from that im assuming since youre relating to this thread in the first place that you do feel sad when young people die, and you havent given away the majority of your money so my question to you would be why? is it because as you said before youre crippled by your human nature? if you do have faith why not just say to yourself right i believe in god im a christian, theres definitely a heaven anyway so i dont have to worry about kids dying and i should give away the majority of my money to the poor because even if i die of poverty ill still get into heaven?
Im just saying if i believed in god this is exactly what i would do.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
