One can say it best by stating that Christianity is not a religion but is
God seeking man; whereas in all other religions man is seeking God. The God
that sought us became incarnate in Christ, which is attested by historical
facts. Moorad
-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Fischer <dickfischer@earthlink.net>
To: asa@calvin.edu <asa@calvin.edu>
Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: Faith
>Sam Olsen wrote:
>
>>As much as I dislike the discovery that the issues you discussed are not
so
>>easily verifiable, I am left with the realisation of the importance of
>>faith nevertheless. The words of Augustine quoted by someone on the chat
>>group "Credo ut intelligam/I believe in order to understand" and from one
>>of the minor prophets (Hab 2v4): "the just shall live by faith" take on a
>>new meaning for me ( have I taken this latter phrase erroneously into this
>>context George?). Take Hebrews 6v1and6 ("assurance" = subjective ;
>>"without faith impossible to please God") and we once again see that
>>systematic reasoned factual foundation is unfortunately not what will hold
>>me to Christianity or any world view for that matter.
>
>"Unfortunately" is the key word here. Unfortunately, there are millions
hooked
>by cults who can't be reasoned with because they have "faith." I talked
just
>yesterday with a Buddhist friend who, simply because she was born in
>Cambodia, is of that faith. Is my faith in Christianity stronger than her
>faith? I
>doubt it. Could I convince her and her husband because of Christian
>love? They
>have a family love that I can only envy.
>
>I do have the one thing that can be used to support my religious belief -
>data and
>evidence - the stuff of science. Christ appeared to the masses after the
>resurrection
>to give credibility to the apostles, who thereafter would have members in
the
>audience who had seen the risen Christ, and could testify to that fact.
>
>If we choose to ignore supporting evidence for our faith, and for our
>methods of
>apology, we are reduced to a shouting contest only that we can either win
or
>lose simply on the power of our rhetoric. God has given us better
ammunition
>than that. We ignore it at our peril.
>
>Dick Fischer - The Origins Solution - www.orisol.com
>"The answer we should have known about 150 years ago."
>
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