Re:Why religion is not going away and science will not destr...
by NotAChristian on Saturday September 16, 2017 @12:50AM
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Many people take faith to mean to blind believe. But it is not like that at all.
What does it mean to have faith? Have faith in what?
When Jesus says have faith, Jesus meant have faith in what he said. In other word, believe in what he says. But what does that mean though?
What Jesus meant by believe is this...
Jesus: "Dude, believe me, you can save yourself from a life of misery and pain if you just do these things I am about to tell you: Do not murder. Do not kill. Do not steal. Etc. And also, remember, I love you and God loves you."
But somehow, most people have misunderstood this to just mean blindly believing.
Re:Why religion is not going away and science will not destr...
by otp124 on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @06:15PM
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Perhaps that sentence was not clear, as I typed it in a hurry before my bus stop. What you described is what I meant to say.
Thank you for taking the time to elaborate.
Re:Why religion is not going away and science will not destr...
by cholantesh on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @06:57PM
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If we press enough, though, the evidence in question turns out to be divine revelation and the axiom that it genuinely happened.
It's not. The Christian word "faith" (in Greek, pistis (1)) is better translated as "trust", "conviction", or "faithfulness". "Faith" and "belief" are also translations, but the English meanings of those words have been watered down over the years, hence a lot of this confusion.
Anyway, you don't need proof to trust something, to have conviction that it's true. And having incontrovertible proof doesn't mean you don't trust something anymore.
(1) https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?str...