Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason answers the question, “What is faith?” For more visit www.str.org.
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Well said mr. Koukl
Zeitgiest doesnt tell you that Jesus was the first RECORDED ressurection, the other false gods resurrections were myths and were never recorded until after Jesus. There is no archeoligical evidence of any resurection story recorded until after Jesus Christ. Also dec 25th being the birthdate of jesus is just a traditional date, not the actual date they believe he was born on. But i do understand that since they dont tell you this it does appear as though Jesus’ life events are fabricated.
watch Zeitgeist
Turst. yes
Why should moral conventions be judged that way? Who’s understanding of “objectively” would you follow? (Hitler and his followers thought they were objective, too)
What do you mean by that?
to have christian faith you have to intelectualized a fantasy in order to believe
Oh, forgot to say, dictionary definitions are descriptive, not prescriptive. Never forget that.
I certainly agree with the conclusion. Trust IS a better word. However, even given complete knowledge of the principles of aerodynamics and aeronautic engineering, your faith in the performance of a plane is still blind, for the simple reason that you cannot be sure that something won’t go wrong.
Faith is ALWAYS blind.
As I noted, there are multiple definitions. You originally said, “blind by definition” implying that’s the only definition. But the word has multiple meanings, not just one and not all of them are blind. This is Koukl’s whole point. Using the word ‘faith’ makes it too easy for some to grab the wrong English definition which takes us away from the original Greek word. Trust is the better word.
Sorry, but it is blind. Check your dictionaries again, and note where it says ‘especially without evidence or proof’.
Definition? You may want to pick up a dictionary. My dictionary has 9 definitions of faith. The first definition is trust. It’s nothing mysterious. It’s the same trust/faith you have when you step on a plane and trust that you will get to your destination. It’s reasonable and not blind.
Mythology – how did you come to that conclusion?
Um… but the Bible is not a factual record, it’s mythology. No different than the Illiad or the Norse Sagas. So your ‘trust’ is really just blind faith after all. Moral conventions should be judged by the extent to which they objectively contribute to human flourishing.
Excellent video. I was going to make a video on this exact concept and you put it quite well.
He’s talking through his jacksie. Faith is blind by definition.
God Wanted us to Trust Him because with Trust Love is developed.. and God IS LOVE!
Religious are organized criminals. The longer you label gods to rights, the longer you deny to believe. When you apply abstraction, you tend more to ignore a lot of obvious truths. Faith relies lesser determination, lesser mystery labeled names and mislabeled gods.
nature of religion cannot be equated with sins of the father such as molestation, corruption, etc. By this I mean, IF YOU SEE THE SINS OF PEOPLE OF THE CHURCH AND YOU AUTOMATICALLY CONCLUDE RELIGION OR CHRISTIANITY IS EVIL,
Then you are throwing the baby with the bath water. Sad. Very sad indeed that too many people do not see that while MAN is fallible, the HOLY Bible is not.
maybe it’s your sinful nature that drives you away.
Darkened and ghastly our demons shall fly.
Flittering of the macabre under a cold moon.
Decadent worship of black magic and sorcery.
God is in the womb of the devil’s dungeon.
You can see your god writhing in agony.
Necrosis is festering in his face.
Venomous pins sticking in the skin.
The poison prepared by our demons.
God will be drawn and quartered.
His skull will be chained to your head.
We fold the life-less body to fit it in a casket.
We shall then cross out the crucifix.
It’s NOT the word “faith”, but the nature of the religion that drives people away.
Live your faith and doubt your doubts not live your doubts and doubt your faith. Let your life affect your feelings not your feelings affect your life.
The death cult spawned by the hallucinations and fairy tales of an unaccomplished tribe of ancient nomads is of no interest to me. Judeo-Christian beliefs are a cancer on mankind, leading to intolerance, injustice and genocide throughout these past two millenia. Enough already. This moron rakes in $1M a year tax free with this bullshit. Tax the devious con man!
>>> “The story of Paul Bunyan and Babe the blue ox has more logic to it. Prove to me the Great Lakes are not Babe’s footprints!”
blind trust