Okay, John, let's skip the Internet definitions of faith. Here's one I found in a book that sounds good to me:
"...though it is wholly arbitrary and this does nothing to ensure that you are more correct than anyone else."
That's sounds about right to me, and doesn't deal with "material evidence." There is just no way to prove that faith is more true, although I can go take a chemistry class and learn a few hundred ways that chemicals react with each other. I can take a psychology class and learn how humans react to mental influences. That would be discovering truths. Faith does not. That's why science is closer to the truth. It can be tested and verified again and again. Faith is only verified by random chance, and even then saying it is "verified" is a stretch of the facts, since answers to prayers and unexplainable blessings are completely unpredictable and cannot be repeated, no matter how much you pray or believe in God.
Believe in learning knowledge, not making wishes.
"...though it is wholly arbitrary and this does nothing to ensure that you are more correct than anyone else."
That's sounds about right to me, and doesn't deal with "material evidence." There is just no way to prove that faith is more true, although I can go take a chemistry class and learn a few hundred ways that chemicals react with each other. I can take a psychology class and learn how humans react to mental influences. That would be discovering truths. Faith does not. That's why science is closer to the truth. It can be tested and verified again and again. Faith is only verified by random chance, and even then saying it is "verified" is a stretch of the facts, since answers to prayers and unexplainable blessings are completely unpredictable and cannot be repeated, no matter how much you pray or believe in God.
Believe in learning knowledge, not making wishes.
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
- Buddha
"Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it."
- Dennis McKinsey
- Buddha
"Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it."
- Dennis McKinsey