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- Kuz0
to sum up what disicpler said.
faith isn't supersition, because the bible is really really old.
- skt0
I have faith.....
...adams in my wardrobe. Ok so its not really her. Just a sort of shrine / collection.
- discipler0
primordial energy requires a causal factor. :)
- ilovepill0
100!
:)
- discipler0
The legitimacy of faith rests in it's object and the credibilty of that object. The flying spaghetti monster lacks credibility, i.e. there is no historical evidence to support it's existance, it is not responsible for countless changed lives, or the division of history, there are not miraculously preserved manuscripts with fulfilled prophecy and which stand up under the scrutiny of textual criticism which support it's existance, etc... etc...
- Kuz0
you have faith in a primordial universal energy that will put the smackdown on you if you bugger kuz (irrespective of how much he wants you to).
paraselene
(Sep 14 05, 06:37):O! does that apply to EVERYONE????
- paraselene0
you have faith in a primordial universal energy that will put the smackdown on you if you bugger kuz (irrespective of how much he wants you to).
- Kuz0
i think we're talking about faith in a supernatural entity.
not faith as in "i have faith that mike will be miserable today."
stop playing word games you little monkey!
- paraselene0
i never posited any such thing.
i have faith in a primordial universal energy that will put the smackdown on me if i don't throw spilt salt over my left shoulder.
- Kuz0
Today~~Private Wedding. Please Worship Elswhere
- discipler0
and everyone expresses faith. paraselene expresses faith when she posits that there is nothing beyond the natural realm. After all, she can't prove this. She's excercising faith.
Personally, I don't have quite enough faith to hold that view. Too much purposed design working against it.
- discipler0
superstition is the result of ignorance. and it's definition is highly subjective.
in the case of biblical faith, it's confident trust based on empirical evidence. "Faith based in facts" as some say.
The two really don't share any common ground when properly understood and viewed without the western lense of prejudice against the supernatural.
- Kuz0
ergo: superstition is a result of faith
paraselene
(Sep 14 05, 06:19)haha, she says little, but when she duz, it's always incisive!
- Kuz0
"God welcomes his victims"
- Kuz0
Today's Topic: He Knows What You Did Last Summer
- Kuz0
ummm, now let me think,
There's something about the Virgin Mary!
- paraselene0
faith is expressing trust in something without being able to touch or see it.
Superstition is a fearful or abject state of mind resulting from such ignorance or irrationality.
discipler
(Sep 14 05, 06:19)ergo: superstition is a result of faith
- mrdobolina0
I see no difference.
- discipler0
well, my explanation would be...
faith is expressing trust in something without being able to touch or see it.
The Bible puts it this way:
"faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see."
- Hebrews 11:1
Superstition is a fearful or abject state of mind resulting from such ignorance or irrationality.
- skt0
There is a good one in Clapham.
Lets all meet up round my place, Sunday after lunch. - God.