Ben Osborne
Second Unit
- Joined
- Mar 9, 2002
- Messages
- 475
Religious Faith is not the same thing as believing you won't choke on your dinner tonight or slip in your bathtub or have a plane accident. Religious Faith is a belief in something for which you have no proof.Ernest, your definition of faith does indeed make faith incompatible with reason. If there are good reasons for believing something, it can't be faith, by your definition, but "reasonable expectation." That is a very tortuous definition that I believe is untenable. We have gone over many example of instances where a person must exercise a measure of trust in order to do something, since the desired outcome is not guaranteed. You refuse to call these things "faith" simply because they don't fit in with your definition of the word. You can stick with your definition, but the classic definition of "faith" would be something like "trusting obedience" or "acting on what you believe to be true." By that definition, faith and reason are completely compatible. You have given me no reason to prefer your definition, so I will stick with mine.