(February 28, 2013 at 12:48 pm)Question Mark Wrote: The point of the fish example was to see if you apply faith to something connected with your god, instead of only for your god. I find it remarkable that many theistically minded people take faith in god extremely seriously, but then scoff at applying it upon anything else. It's a form of special pleading.
Having no explanation for an event does not justify making something up. I'm perfectly happy saying "I don't know" in answer to a question when that is the honest truth of the matter.
Incidentally, we have some theories on explaining life. Whether you or anyone else accepts them is when we drift into the realm of opinions, and when debate can no longer be a possibility.
I would delight in being friends with you here and now, in this life we both know that we have. I would rather that than wait for an afterlife I'm not sure I'll ever have, and have no evidence for.
Done Mark! We are friends!
Hey like I said in an earlier post....my brother and father are agnostic and atheist. So that is not an issue in my friendship or love!
And I would be a fool to say I have proof to give anyone... BUT, I have witnessed many, MANY miracles in my life and others in relation to God.
I really don't say too much about all these things...well....because for one, I don't want them (miracles) to end, and am a bit superstitous. And 2, because I struggle with the fact that maybe my Faith [alone] has a big part in things happening! And should be enough, without me needing proof. Reading back here...its hard for me to explain it really!
That may seem odd to even the religious out there, but it's my thing. And something I need to sort out and deal with.
Quis ut Deus?
