Re: Historical honesty if not accuracy

In a message dated 6/8/2006 5:14:16 PM Eastern Standard Time,
cfauster@creighton.edu writes:
Nancy Pearcey asks a similar question: if Christianity were shown to be
false, would you still believe it anyway? In her view, if one's faith
is not grounded in reality enough to be vulnerable to disproof, then
it's not worth having. She wants to break down the faith-fact divide.
"If any of you falls short in wisdom, he should ask God for it and it will be
given him, for God is a generous giver who neither refuses nor reproaches
anyone. But he must ask in faith, WITHOUT A DOUBT IN HIS MIND; for the doubter is
like a heaving sea ruffled by the wind. A man of that kind must not expect
the Lord to give him anything; he is double minded, and never can keep a steady
course."
James 1:5-8

In ontology, when there is no self, there is no subject and what was formerly
self is abandoned to the world of objects which now become the immediate
focus of awareness.

If you give up your self out of faith, the self is no longer a concern.
You've transcended it and proof is no longer required.

It's not a matter of a faith worth having, it's a matter of understanding the
total faith being asked of us with nothing promised at all.

You're there when heaven is no longer an issue for you.

“In heaven, however, no creature will stand between God and the soul. He
himself will be the immediate object of its vision. Scripture and theology tell us
that the blessed see God face to face"

This definition of heaven from the Catholic Encyclopedia is the ontology of
the self sacrifice I mention above. Achieve the self sacrifice and no creature
stands between God and your soul. The body is the self to be sacrificed. The
remaining soul sees God face to face. Make the sacrifice WITHOUT A DOUBT IN
YOUR MIND.

Jesus didn't have a guarantee either. That's the challenge. That there is no
proof.

Thanks for tolerating my occasional comments...

rich faussette
Received on Thu Jun 8 18:48:56 2006