Why is faith important?

[Question Mark]

Sorry... You're the one who took the loan? Am I missing something?

What a world, what a world...

It used to be a big deal to take a loan. One would only ever take a loan if he Knew that without doubt he could pay it back. To take the risk of a 25K loan on something like a new business was beyond a leap of faith. especially when neither one of us really knew anything about how to run a business.

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I have made the effort.

Without doubt you made a strong 'religious' effort. Now ask yourself did your 'religious effort' match what Christ told us to do?

Do you think I just up and decided one day "Oh believing in god is just too much trouble, I'm gonna be an atheist".
Truth is a rather important thing in my opinion.

Do you believe it any less important to me?

And I'm still mad at you by the way.

so is 99% of everyone else on this website.

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Why are we obligated to go looking for proof of something we don't believe in?

Your not, that is why I asked would you..
You are only obligated if you want to know God.

If your case is so strong, should you not be able to prove it to us? If something is real, it doesn't need faith to sustain it.

Again Absolutly no faith is needed to sustain a relationship with God.

Only the Faith of a Mustard seed is needed to establish a connection with God. Once you can expend this tiny amount of faith, God will show up. When He does faith will no longer be needed.

I don't know what the hell Christ wants, I've never met the bloke, and all the evidence points to the fact that what's int he bible was certainly not written by him, but some 60 years at least after he supposedly died. So no, I don't know what Christ wants, it'd be nice if he'd push up the schedule for the battle of Armagedon so I can just go talk to him about it when he comes to defeat the anti-christ.

(Okay that last bit was a joke)

Maybe others are annoyed at you, but I was really quite angry. I'd gone out of my way to do as you instructed me to, and all you could do to account for it was to tell me I was being disingenuous.
That put me a little beyond trivial annoyance, as you might imagine.

Have you ever read Angels and Demons by Dan Brown?