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To: Yardstick

I’m awful surprised anyone laying claim to a Biblical faith does this. Well, not surprised. Anybody can “claim” anything. But the Bible speaks of showing, demonstrating, proving. Deny this and still call yourself a Christian and I’ll laugh at you.


73 posted on 04/06/2009 2:03:43 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
But the Bible speaks of showing, demonstrating, proving.

The Bible speaks a lot about faith too. If it were all about proofs, it probably wouldn't have appeared as "foolishness to the Greeks". The paradox is that the things that can't be proven are more real than the things that can. Nothing can be more real to us than our sensory perceptions and our thoughts. The fact that we can't prove what the color red looks like or that we have a conscious mind or that we love someone doesn't make them not real. We experience the reality of these things concretely and immediately, so no abstract proof is required. Any attempt to prove them leaves you with something less real and less convincing than the thing itself. Look at God himself -- he doesn't bother with abstract proofs. He just says I AM and leaves it at that.

88 posted on 04/06/2009 7:49:42 AM PDT by Yardstick
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