(March 30, 2010 at 11:01 am)Rwandrall Wrote: Lots of Christians i met say that their belief is based not on blind faith, which is not what God wants. God wants a reasonable faith based on your life experience. They are wrong.
Jesus himself said to the Apostle that wouldn't believe in his resurrection for lack of evidence (see where im going with this ?) that "Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
Blind faith is what Jesus thinks is the good kind of faith. How sad is that ?
This is a misunderstanding of what Jesus was saying to Thomas.
Thomas refused to believe that Jesus had risen until he had put his fingers in the nail holes in Jesus' hands. After doing so, his skepticism was gone.
Believers today do not have that direct evidence; they must rely on the indirect or circumstantial evidence. And they are blessed for accepting that evidence without the benefit of actually seeing and touching Jesus the way the original apostles did. However, this is NOT "blind faith". It is faith based upon EVIDENCE provided by eyewitnesses.
