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To: Mr Rogers; Markos33; Iscool
Humans are not logical, nor were our minds meant to be. Our minds are irrevocably linked to our bodies and emotions, and thought is another form of emotion...or maybe the other way around.

Logic is a mental discipline, a tool that help us construct things. We are capable of it by nature. Whether we use it or not is a different story. I think it's much easier to create a world in your fancy than to deal with the real one.

Part of growing up is recognizing the difference between wishing and reality, between magic and the world around us. To a 5-year old, Santa may not only be "logical" but is definitely "real." The world we know today tells us that it is way too big for our understanding but that doesn't justify inventing a deity because it "solves" the problem.

Perhaps at the root of this is man's unwillingness to accept his position in the universe, a sense of entitlement, and fear of the unknown. Perhaps mankind has more growing up to do.

But this is all unnecessary. I simply asked "how do you know it is from God" or "how do you know it is "God inspired" or "how do you know this holy book is true and the other is not?" I am not interested in critiquing other poeple's beliefs. I am simply asking a logical question form those who seem to claim to know something as certainty but are unable to prove it.

If someone really believes he can fly like Peter Pan but cannot corroborate it may be better not to make such claims publicly. If someone says that he or she believes that under certain circumstances we can fly like Peter Pan there is nothing to question. It's a hypothesis at best. But if it is claimed as a matter of fact and not faith, then proof is in order and you better have one in order not to look like a fool.

I think of all people, Christians should have the humility and wisdom to never make such matter-of-fact claims because, after all, faith is hope of things unknown.

2,723 posted on 07/19/2009 9:22:33 AM PDT by kosta50 (Don't look up, the truth is all around you)
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To: kosta50
..."faith is hope of things unknown."...

Heb 11:1 (1) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

There is an epistemological difference between those things not seen and those things not known.

2,731 posted on 07/19/2009 8:07:44 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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