Timeline for Is religion fundamentally problematic for logical decision making in society?
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| Oct 26, 2017 at 5:12 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | +1:Good quote from the Gulag Archipelago, I've been meaning to read that for sometime. | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 16:23 | comment | added | user3017 | @Viziionary. Why do you think I don't understand that? What I really don't understand is why you keep going on about this. What's your point? | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 11:29 | comment | added | J.Todd | @PédeLeão you really dont understand this simple fact that "faith" is not a "Gift from God" only. That's your faith for the third time, faith is a word (I already gave you the full official definition) which can be used for people who believe in Zeus or even people who believe in Satan as their God, or one of their 50 gods. The word faith doesn't belong to your religion exclusively. | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 8:53 | comment | added | user3017 | @Viziionary. Faith comes directly from God. It is an outward manifestation of the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit: "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh." (Ezekiel 36:26) | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 2:33 | comment | added | J.Todd | @PédeLeão How could the first faithful man believed in the gift of faith in the first place if he had no faith to believe in god? | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 2:28 | comment | added | user3017 | @naught101. The last two things you said are incorrect. We know of God's existence apart from the Scriptures, and faith doesn't come from the Scriptures. Faith is a gift from God as I said earlier. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 2:20 | comment | added | naught101 | Faith tells you that the scriptures are authoritative (a message from God). The scriptures (or faith) are what tell you God exists. God (or the scriptures,) tell you that your faith is certain. It all just seems a bit circular to me. | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 13:00 | comment | added | user3017 | @naught101. How did you come to that conclusion? It's certainly not what I said. | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 12:46 | comment | added | naught101 | So you have faith in the scriptures because the scriptures tell you to have faith in the scriptures? | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 9:10 | comment | added | user3017 | @naught101. By faith, we recognize the Scriptures as inspired by God, giving us certainty with respect to their authority. But such certainty doesn't exempt people from making errors of interpretation. | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 7:11 | comment | added | naught101 | @PédeLeão: So you're saying the uncertain (at least in my view) certainty of religious faith is more useful in the making of decisions than the certain (as agreed by everyone) uncertainty of the scientific method? I mean, people actually used to believe (presumably with "unshakeable and ineradicable" certainty) that heaven was a place in/above the sky. We now have ample reason to believe (with very high certainty) that that's not the case. The faith was certain, and now is not. What reason do we have to think than any other faith-based belief is not vulnerable to the same destruction? | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 1:33 | comment | added | J.Todd | I'm not begging anything, I'm stating a simple fundamental fact. Faith is a universal concept, not one that can only exist as part of your religion's definition of it. | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 1:30 | comment | added | user3017 | You're just begging the question. | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 1:24 | comment | added | J.Todd | The faith, in the most fundamental sense, is not based on a specific religion's readings or teaching, faith is a universal concept. | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 1:20 | comment | added | J.Todd | Easily, it's a no-brainer. For example, here's the Miriam Webster definition of faith: 1 a : allegiance to duty or a person : loyalty b (1) : fidelity to one's promises (2) : sincerity of intentions 2 a (1) : belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2) : belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion b (1) : firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2) : complete trust 3 : something that is believed especially with strong conviction; especially : a system of religious beliefs | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 1:04 | comment | added | user3017 | Can you prove that it's 100% wrong? | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 1:01 | comment | added | J.Todd |
In order for it to qualify as true faith, it has to originate as a gift from God (see Ephesians 2:8) You just defined faith based on an excerpt from the Bible. That is simply 100% wrong. Faith is an English word not defined by any specific religion's own definition of it. Come on now..
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| Apr 18, 2016 at 0:58 | history | answered | user3017 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |