RE: Faith and Works
September 5, 2014 at 1:24 pm
(This post was last modified: September 5, 2014 at 1:26 pm by Mudhammam.)
(September 4, 2014 at 9:58 am)Drich Wrote:(September 2, 2014 at 6:53 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I do my best to be sincere and open-minded to all considerations, actively seeking opposing points of view and disavowing dogmas when I am able (if empiricism is a dogma, it seems the very definition of sensible enough), and as a result I see no reasonable path of reconciliation to this idea of faith that Christianity relishes.
That's the thing with a command. One does not have to understand it, to follow it
A command implies a commander, and the only commanders I see clearly are other men like yourself, whom I bare no obligation to follow beyond the wits of reason.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza