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Author Topic:   The concept of faith
randman 
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Message 35 of 116 (233011)
08-13-2005 4:01 PM
Reply to: Message 11 by Faith
08-12-2005 4:44 PM


Re: Reasons
Faith hits on a key part of faith, which is that it is to a degree based on experiences of oneself and others, and then put of reasoning on how to interpret those experiences.
Anti-faith reasoning is illogical in a lot of respects because it more or less dismisses human religious experience a priori or assumes it is nothing more than a psychological imagination.
The problem with such reasoning is that science and demanding scientific evidence limits one to the degree of technological advances, and is thus more or less wholly unsuitable for deciding major "eternal" decisions.
For illustration, just consider that we today will be viewed in all likelihood as extremely primitive 300 years from now. So in the greater context of human history, the most advanced people from thier perspective are practically mere savages technologically.
So relying on science to be a final or even a reliable arbiter before the technology is advanced is stilly.
It is more reasonable to think of human religious experiences as real, and see what the correct interpretation of those experiences is, and that involves the totality of human thinking, including reason to a high degree, and out of that, comes faith in my opinion.

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