You obviously don't get it SN, I'm not here to make you a believer, just attempting to share my side of it and see yours. We're not debating anything here I agreed with your face value literal definition of the scriptures. You can read an entire dictionary though and not find any meaning in it. You choose not to take context into account, yet are complaining that you don't understand. You obviously are more up for debate than listening. You can define faith any way you like, you seem to accept only the interpretations of words that coincide with your biases. You and the writer above claim how can you believe in something you can't interact with. We're saying you can't know if something exists unless you've interacted with it. If you feel every theist is a delusional, irrational unicorn believer than fine by me. If you want to believe the holy spirit is just an emotional state, fine by me. I really wish you wouldn't speak to things you have no context or belief in though. That along with your continued baseless assumptions on my motives and your failure to attempt to see the other side of the issue makes you seem closed-minded and ignorant. I think we'll just have to call this one failing to see eye to eye.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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