I reason from what I know of the definition of what a chair is and my experience with that chair that it will hold my weight if I were to sit in it. I also reason that from what I know of the definition of the Christian God is and my experience trusting in God that my life is better because of it. You're being disingenuous asking for physical evidence of the spiritual. Just because your materialist view adds requirements to your definition of faith doesn't mean I have the same hang ups. If you're being disingenuous and I'm a liar I guess we're just not going to get a lot accomplished hunh?
Atheists have faith in their memories, faith in your reason, faith in your senses, etc. You don't rationalize and reason every thought or action, no one does. If you want to define faith as "blind trust, in the absence of evidence or despite evidence" then go right ahead. I believe that is not the common Christian understanding of the work faith.
Atheists have faith in their memories, faith in your reason, faith in your senses, etc. You don't rationalize and reason every thought or action, no one does. If you want to define faith as "blind trust, in the absence of evidence or despite evidence" then go right ahead. I believe that is not the common Christian understanding of the work faith.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
