(March 23, 2013 at 8:16 pm)Sagasa Wrote:(March 22, 2013 at 5:26 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Just incorrect covers it. Making a sweeping statement based on that makes you look like a dick, especially when you've just held up diligence and honesty as ideals.So what you're saying is, there are people who believe who don't simply rely on faith? Believers who don't stop at the statement, "God is far above our ways"? Believers who don't find that statement intellectually satisfying and poke and prod until they find an answer that is? Because if there were, I would like to meet them. They seem to be an endangered species.
You misunderstand the nature of faith. Faith is not blindness, it is learning with God. Faith is more certain than reason. Faith is not fideism. You write as someone that has very little knowledge of spirituality. The reduction of religious epistemology to fideism is a mistake that originates from people that have very, very little understanding of the nature of real Christianity, which is not irrational and does not owe its origins to contemporary trends in the universities. Perhaps you were unfortunate enough to be raised in a family that had a bastardized form of Christianity, "religious Christianity". I am sorry if this is the case. Real Christianity is learning with God, it is far from blind, although God does not promise anywhere that God will show people everything God has given me the answers to pretty much everything I have sought Him on. But God if he is to be sought must be sought earnestly. The half seeker will find nothing.
