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Message 77 of 78 (339635)
08-12-2006 6:26 PM
Reply to: Message 73 by Hyroglyphx
08-10-2006 9:25 PM


Re: The completeness of faith
nemesis_juggernaut writes:
That is, an informed faith. An informed faith is based on merit, not suppositions. There is logic behind the faith, not some blind allegiance towards nothing at all.
sounds good, go on!
nemesis_juggernaut writes:
I mean, during my days as a pagan, if someone simply randomly walked up to me and said, "Believe in Jesus because He's the Son of God and He'll save your soul," I would seriously consider the man or woman to be delusional to expect me to believe that on blind faith without some sort of corroboration.
I'm right behind ya (in a good way ofcourse).
nemesis_juggernaut writes:
It took me many years of investigation and prayer for personal revelation to come to know by an informed faith that Jesus is indeed the Son of God and that He holds the key to my salvation.
um....excuse me? You prayed ? but I thought you said you didn't believe in the first place. You were a pagan. Who did you pray to, Mother Earth ?
You didn't by any chance pray to the Biblical God to help you determine whether Jesus was indeed his son (as stated in the Bible by said God) ?!
you call this 'informed faith' ??
nemesis_juggernaut writes:
If I were to flippantly believe for no apparent reason, then my faith is unjustified
but that's exactly what you did! you flippantly decided that the Bible is true, therefore the God described within is true so you prayed to him in order to confirm that the Bible is true.
..and he -suprise, suprise- did!
wow, 'informed faith' in action!

"In life, you have to face that some days you'll be the pigeon and some days you'll be the statue."

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