(September 21, 2020 at 7:44 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: I completely understand his thought process (his own mental disposition) as you describe. I used to have the same thought process when I was a theist.
But his use of faith describing something that may only be a thought process in his mind (his own mental disposition), and thinking he's using faith in the same way to describe his trust that the chair will not collapse, is a completely flawed thought process.
It's not even apples to oranges. It's apples to bigfoot.
Both John and tackattack feel they have adequate reason to trust in God. They are confident that it has been demonstrated. When a person feels that God, or a dentist, or a chair, or the Japanese post office, have been found reliable, then a person may have faith in that thing.
You disagree that God has been found reliable in this way. But they think he has. For you it's apples to Bigfoot because you think that God can't be shown to be reliable. For them the type of trust is the same as relying on a chair, though on a different scale.
It might be interesting to hear them describe how they came to find God reliable. The reasons vary a lot among Christians. But I see no reason to doubt that their mental disposition is as they describe.