I see.
I’ve been reading your posts.
Respectfully, you’re quite a piece of work.
I deduce that you’re quite intelligent. You’ve
stated you come from good stock; but good
golly, lady, why so arrogant, snarky, cocksure
and supercilious ?
If you are a believer, quoting biblically as
you do, do you not know of that gem: faith
is the evidence of things unseen, and whose plan
is Supreme and ultimate?
We know not what is to come in the next hour,
never mind the midterms, nor whom will do what
in any given govt office, courtroom, network
or corporation, nor whom will be struck with
gnawing remorse or guilt, and confess a golden,
precious and vital truth ... NONE of it.
The wheels will turn and events will play out
as they will. But I do know that God will not
be mocked, and that there are forces for good
fighting the righteous fight .. at this very
moment ... unseen .. for this nation’s and
freedom’s preservation. And Amen.
No. I have never heard such a thing.
I even googled it. Nada. No hits.
I do know something close to what you said, but it has a totally different meaning than that which you purport.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Let us examine the words.
First we have Faith and it is described not as you said something unseen, but as SUBSTANCE. Substance has mass. It is quantitative. Real. Substantial.
Secondly, it is EVIDENCE. Now, as an attorney I am very familiar with this word. And in the context it is SOLID EVIDENCE. That is to say immutable. Sure. Understood. Proven.
Your wording implied the very opposite. Something unknown, vague, outside of reason. I reject that totally, and with near hostility. Faith, as is my middle name, is something to which I am deeply aware and it is more real than any text we see on this board. The living God calls faith SUBSTANCE and EVIDENCE. Not something ephemeral, mystic, or elusive.
It is because the substantive evidence is all around us our founding fathers, of which my 9th great-grandfather was one, used the words, "Self Evident Truths".
When I speak in these absolute terms, and claim unknown futures as fact, it is I who am being quantitative, real, evidential, and truthful.
When someone tells me they or I cannot know, cannot be sure, I see only those who have never encountered truth and lack faith and understanding.
It is the spirit of Pontius Pilate which asks, "What is truth"? It is the spirit of God which says, "I am the truth".
Sadly, what is missing in this debate, and I keep attempting to interject it, is that our path is ordered. Our future, from a religious or even a quantum mechanical point of view is already done and known. This is not a path of fear nor of ignorance. It is these and the distractions from the tasks at hand which will be the labors to the bitter fruits of our destruction.
If that is too deep of a concept for some, I will put it more basely. Rude, ignorant, insulting conservatives who are unable to reason with their own, are the greater threat to liberty than any outside force. If we are not united, we ARE divided. And it is not "us" who are doing the dividing. We bring only a point of view and ask for reason. We are met with abuse. This is the end of all that the abusers purport to be saving. They are the enemy within.
And they are known by their deeds!