Faith, what is it?

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Quite frankly, yes I would require real evidence on big claims. As real as we can get.

The point I'm trying to make is that you should believe what seems reasonable to you and not hold out for absolute evidence for it.

Somethings are too important to be limited to that extent and must be understood with all our experiences not much repeatable ones.

Of course not, somethings are too important to leave people guessing for it. Mysticism is a way to veil things, not to reveil things. There is no reason why a god you allegedly can have a personal relation with, should make a puzzle out of it, if these truths are that important.

So you know for a fact that if God were real He would have no reason to be as veiled as He is?

Explain to me how someone a few thousand years ago was ment to know God before science? I believe the answer is that God is a person and so is known personally not by data.

Supposing that there was a god, in that time the best possible evidence were miracles and apparitions and they are all over the bible. Those people could see all of that with their own eyes! Sadly for us they are all written accounts and have to compete with many other magical stuff from other religions. Only in this time we are told to believe on basis of even less evidence than those miracles in ancient times. Isn't it strange that we should believe on basis of less evidence than in ancient times? A possible explanation of this is of course that ancient people were more perceptible to make belief than modern man nowadays (at least some of us).

So you would say then for those people then miracles were a reasonable reason to believe in God? I would also like to point out that the Old Testament is over hundreds of years, so there arn't all that many miracles for individual people. I think back then and now the reason people follow God is because they have had some kind of revelation of Him or for Christianity they know God.

I disagree that there are no miracles nowadays, in fact there are many healings nowadays, and I don't mean by 'amazing big time healers' but from the prayers of normal people who have faith in God. Its happened many a time to people in my church and by heals I mean instant ones (few seconds).

Somethings are too important to be limited to that extent

First, I don't agree that your superstitions are all that important and Second, if they were (for the sake of argument) THAT important then they should not be limited to the imagined rantings of believers.

What should not be limited to believers rants?