RE: Question about "faith"
September 16, 2020 at 2:20 pm
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2020 at 2:22 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(September 16, 2020 at 1:54 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: My mood would not enter into the picture.
I don't need my mood to indicate whether my wife loves me or not. I have LOADS of evidence that she does....
Exactly; your mood shouldn't enter the picture. Yet, since it will, given that we are affective creatures and there is a vast literature on how emotions interact with decisions, faith is trusting your wife's love even on days when emotions interfere with your ability to see that fact.
Emotions are an important part of cognition in individuals with a functional vmPFC. If you personally are detached from emotions and are not affected by them, you could hopefully still understand how this isn't the case for individuals with anxiety or depression. Faith is trusting that the sun will rise tomorrow, even when your emotions feel like the world is ending tonight.
Quote:All you are doing, is listing what you believe. If only any theist could explain, with demonstrable and falsifiable evidence, and valid and sound logic, WHY they believe it.
Correct again; faith is not a method of proving God's existence. If you keep attempting to use faith in that context it no longer applies. Faith is trusting a God you already believe exists; faith is idependent of whatever reasons, evidence, or logic you built your belief of God on.
Quote:Again, Hebrews 11:1 seems to disagree with you.
If faith has nothing to do with evidence, knowledge or beliefs, it is useless. Because, with regards to existential claims, those things are what really matter.
Just replace the word "faith" with "trust" in Hebrews 11:1 if you have difficulty understanding the verse.