"...many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love
closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of "faith"!
How strange that the very word "faith" has come to mean its exact opposite.
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How very true. You can read or hear the rest, here.
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You quoted a person who used the term "faith" to refer to things uncertain, who contrasted it to the use of the term "faith" to refer to certain ideas. I think both uses of the term faith are Biblically incorrect.
As I see it, Biblically, "faith" is action on one's beliefs. Our beliefs are a combination of scientificaly varifiable facts, logical reason, reasonable ideas, experience, taught concepts and conventions, and authoritatively presented ideas, etc.
Faith is acting on these when our inclination is to ignore these beliefs. Faith is returning a $100 mistake when the $100 is the only visible means of making payment on our utility bill. The belief is in the principle of honesty motivated by the idea that there are higher laws and realities than our needs of the moment. The belief came from one or a combination of combination of logical reason, reasonable ideas, experience, taught concepts and conventions, and authoritatively presented ideas, etc. Often it is the scientifically varifiable that is not a motivation for our faith, hense the myth of the varience between science and faith.
Faith is neither logical nor illogical. certain or uncertain. It is the action on ideas certainly held by a person. Christian faith is based on the Bible and Christ and Holy Spirit. Paul said, "... I will show you my faith by my works."
Gailand
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