Yes...and no. By "NO" I mean faith is never running solo...there's always an object of that trust. With Christianity, no personal revealing of Jesus, no faith, no religion. No resurrection of Jesus= a faith that is in vain...empty...says the apostle Paul in 1 cor 15...That means unlike "religion" christianity is rooted in time-space history...it's not ethereal esoterism like a lot of faddish new age stuff...that means that the resurrection of Jesus wasn't done in some dark corner...He appeared to 500 witnesses...eyewitnesses are legal testimony...testimony worthy of the "news" section .. not just the "religion" section ... it isn't simply "faith" regardless of whether it corresponds to reality...if the jerusalem times had been around during Jesus' dayn reports of His resurrection would have bee front page news...the eyewitnesses could have been interviewed
Colo— I believe in the resurrection of Christ, and in His teachings. Not to try to get too cute, but I guess it is conceivable that a god (not our God) could have resurrected Jesus as some sort of cruel joke and that our faith in Christianity could be misplaced. Not likely, but possible, I guess.
My faith includes faith in what Christ taught, as well as faith in what witnesses to His resurrection say. I agree, though, that my faith is buttressed in the truth that Christ’s followers, especially witnesses to the resurrection, in the early church, were willing to die horrible deaths rather than recant what they said they saw. I would like to think that I would be willing to die for Christ, because I believe in Him. If I did not truly believe, I promise that I would not be willing to die for something I thought was a lie.