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To: daniel1212
"If by this you mean, or allow it to mean, that Christian faith is baseless, like a wish, rather than it being a qualified step of faith based upon some warrant, and which results in realities which correspond to the claims of its object, as it is in the Bible, then i disagree. From Abraham to Moses to the apostle, God provided some warrant for taking a step of faith, and attested to it, and so it is today. That is the difference between dead sentimental religion and the church of the living God."

I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. By the way, are you insinuating that Orthodox Christianity is a "dead sentimental religion"? And if so, what is your conception of "the church of the living God"?

5,368 posted on 12/14/2010 10:35:14 AM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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To: Kolokotronis
Sorry, it was late. I was referring to your statement that,

The West is fixated on "proving" and explaining matters of Faith and rejecting matters of Faith when it cannot "prove" or explain what is essentially unprovable and inexplicable.

I understand that this was referring to what happens in sacraments, and i substantially agree we need not understand this, but i was also addressing an idea that is often expressed as part of it, which is that faith is opposed evidence.

5,378 posted on 12/14/2010 2:31:17 PM PST by daniel1212 ( ("Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out," Acts 3:19)
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