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[TruthWorthy]

How can "faith" be chosen? Please explain that. For me it's not a matter of having faith in anything it's a matter of being convinced or not. And some things I'm more convinced of than others.

EvF

I say that I assume the view of a theist in the same way you say that you look at the argument from their perspective. I used belief there to make a comparison, but it's a very poor one, I shouldn't have made it.
My point is that God's existence is a sort of hypothesis. While the truth statement in the material implication (of God (g) caused [)] everything else (e)) can't be falsefied since e = true at all times; the challenge of god is to look for another cause which requires relinquishing belief in god in order to make that consideration.

My faith in God is very similar to the sun coming up tomorrow, It's proven to me so very little faith is necessary. Sometimes good arguements on here to shake the faith, but they have to surmount all of the belief I have before I rely solely on faith. Then I could easily switch beliefs to something else. Faith in God appears to require tons of faith to you simply because you don't believe in it, so to come to that conclusion you'd have to rationalize away all your proofs against it then "have faith" to switch.

In case I didn't clarify the last question. Faith is chosen because your will is focusing on wanting something consciouly, dredging it from the endless possibilities of the subconscious into "reality". That is a choice.

I suppose a theist has past experience to relate back to events which reinforce gods existence. I believe the sun will cross the sky again tomorrow, you might believe that god will listen to, and answer, your next important prayer. One is physically concrete, the other is ambigously subjective.