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To: DeweyCA

There’s a difference between faith and Faith. I’m using the word in the Biblical sense of “evidence of things unseen.” Your examples are all based on observations that transmute into predictions. That’s fine, and I agree with you that that kind of faith governs our daily lives. But I believe there is a different kind of belief that does not rest upon observation and that needs no pattern or history — or reason — to exist.

It exists simply because you choose for it to exist. You believe simply because you choose to believe.


19 posted on 07/25/2016 1:53:17 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: IronJack

Actually, you are 100% WRONG. You do NOT know what you are talking about. Christianity is based on the historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus. It was that way from the very start and it continues today. That is the reason why I believe it. The historical documents of the New testament have MUCH more reliability than ANY other ancient documents.

There is MUCH EVIDENCE to believe in Christianity. Simon Greenleaf, the professor who made Harvard Law School famous wrote a 3-volume treatise on how to judge evidence in a court of law (which was considered the standard for over 50 years in both the USA and Europe). He looked at the historical evidence for the resurrection and became so convinced of its truthfulness that he wrote a short booklet on it. He knew how to judge evidence. The historical evidence goes AGAINST your FAITH that the resurrection did not occur.


21 posted on 07/25/2016 5:05:22 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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