RE: Question about "faith"
September 23, 2020 at 2:37 am
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2020 at 2:37 am by Belacqua.)
(September 22, 2020 at 11:58 pm)Sal Wrote:(September 22, 2020 at 6:51 pm)Belacqua Wrote: This is a very strange thing to say. John has described what faith is, for him, very clearly. In my last post I restated that in my own words.
[...] There's no action or doing that faith does, that can't be matched in greater measure by reason.
OK, this is a different claim. First you said you hadn't been told what faith does. Now you say you have been told what faith does, but reason does it better.
I'm not sure why you're contrasting faith and reason, since the religious people agree that reason is essential to faith. They say that faith is the exercise of reason in controlling emotion and impulse.
Have you read John's posts at all? You could respond to what he says at some point.