RE: Is belief really a choice?
April 6, 2013 at 6:15 pm
(This post was last modified: April 6, 2013 at 6:16 pm by jstrodel.)
It is your choice to seek to understand things in terms of what is important rather than what you want. It is your choice to get out of your comfort zone and explore difficult things.
It is your choice to accept certain types of authority as legitimate, while others you attach less legitimacy to. It is your choice to ultimately trust someone or not.
Yes, it is your choice to believe, belief need not conform to external criteria of acceptability (falsifiability, etc, things that are foreign to the Biblical view of knowledge). It is your choice if you see contradictions to seek out informed Christian perspectives and not rush to find books that you can easily refute.
It is your choice in the end to say, being a good person is more important than my standard of truth, and perhaps Christianity can offer insight to this problem, though at this point my own methods of understanding cannot penetrate it.
It is your choice to accept certain types of authority as legitimate, while others you attach less legitimacy to. It is your choice to ultimately trust someone or not.
Yes, it is your choice to believe, belief need not conform to external criteria of acceptability (falsifiability, etc, things that are foreign to the Biblical view of knowledge). It is your choice if you see contradictions to seek out informed Christian perspectives and not rush to find books that you can easily refute.
It is your choice in the end to say, being a good person is more important than my standard of truth, and perhaps Christianity can offer insight to this problem, though at this point my own methods of understanding cannot penetrate it.
