RE: Christian "faith" vs. plain "faith"
March 27, 2015 at 12:46 am
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2015 at 12:52 am by Whateverist.)
(March 25, 2015 at 9:11 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: There is a difference between believing God and some random man off the street. I would even go as far as saying it is no longer faith in my case, I have SEEN the evidence, there isn't the slightest doubt in my mind that God exists.
Whether you believe that or not makes no difference to me.
Congratulations, you have managed to confirm the belief you so fervently wished for. There can hardly be anything more convincing than that.
(March 25, 2015 at 9:11 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Whether you believe that or not makes no difference to me.
Never has the vice been more versa.
(March 26, 2015 at 1:11 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Paul was just some random Guy off the street?
The guy whose letters are the foundation of Christianity, was just some random guy?
The Guy who was tutored by Gamaliel, was just some random guy off the street?
The guy who persecuted the early Christians and had a miraculous conversion, was just some random guy off the street.
The guy who was imprisoned, beaten, and eventually beheaded for his beliefs, was just some random guy off the street?
How come I'm just finding this out now
I'm going to go with "stubborn", though brainwashed is also tempting. Frankly I think anyone who uses "belief" to mean that which is fervently wished for must undergo a kind of slippage with reality. Call it the Tangled Web Syndrome.
