RE: Question about "faith"
September 22, 2020 at 4:12 pm
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2020 at 4:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 22, 2020 at 3:04 pm)tackattack Wrote: Sorry for the tardiness and the lack of free time to share, it's been busy. It's a shame I don't feel that broken as you ascribe. The faith for a descriptive definition between a chair and God (for me) is the same thing, trust from experience. Descriptively they are the same. Prescriptively, you use the appropriate tools to measure. The mundanity of the chair being a physical object means a different set of prescriptive criteria than the spiritual God. It takes less faith for something "mundane" like a tree or chair than it does for the intangible, but the description of faith is the same.If you say so. Christian faith is a thing like a thing about chairs. Nothing more to it. The christians have spoken.
I don't care what your reasons for believing in anything are, chairs or gods, and have no interest in bickering with you about them. I'm just surprised at how tiny christian faith gets when it seeks to engage in some doomed argument to that effect. Mountain mover? Life changing? Endowed with the fullness of divine grace? Pertaining to a sense of the numinous? Born again? Nah, none of that. Just chairs.
The types of christians I have to deal with on a daily basis would conclude, as I have, that both you and john have a dead faith. If this really is all that your christian faith is, and there really is no difference between your christian faith and your whatever about a chair, then I'd suggest the same thing to you that I did to him pages ago. Get right with jesus, grow your faith.
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