Hi Faith,
Faith writes:
The idea that faith is a gamble is one of those things people make up, there is nothing in the Bible that treats faith that way
I meant it as a analogy or to illustrate. (Probably a poor example.)
Faith in the presence of confirmed facts is like gambling is in the presence of no risk.
Is someone practicing faith if they have confirmed evidence?
Is someone gambling if they are 100% certain of sucess?
In other words, how can you be gambling if you certain of winning?
How can you be basing your beliefs on faith if you
know the article in questions is based on confirmed facts.
Let me try another analogy.
The word
predict. Means to correctly say or know what will happen before it happens.
Now how can one predict something if it already has happened?
It is no longer prediction. Something that is 'after the fact' can not by definition be predicted.
Just as having faith in something that is already confirmed is superfulous.
You say your faith is based on evidence of the thing that requires faith to believe. If something is completely evidenced then it no longer requires faith to believe it to be true.
At least as far as I understand the word faith to be used.
So yes, depending on the source of the "evidence" the requirement how much faith imo is inversely proportionate to the quality of the evidence.
Edited by 1.61803, : removed the word 'directley'
"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs