(June 26, 2014 at 1:35 am)BlackMason Wrote: I also disagree with you. Is it not true that you have observed that your friend is reliable in the past? I believe that it is so. Therefore, it is not faith that you are exercising when dealing with your friend, it is reason. Believing that your friend will come at 10 is reasonable because of the manner he/she has conducted him/herself. This is something "tangible" that you are basing your decision on. Does one have anything as "tangible" when dealing with faith?As I said, Paul noted examples of people who had experienced god in some way before trusting his word. Their faith was based on the knowledge that god existed and therefore they trusted that he would be true to his word.
BlackMason Wrote:If we go by the Bible, we can assume that Thomas either directly witnessed --or got eyewitness accounts of-- Jesus resurrecting the dead, and heard Jesus predict his own resurrection. Jesus chided Thomas for not trusting that he would be true to his word.John 20:29 KJV Wrote:Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.Is that not the basis of faith?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
