A. Any educated person knows that dictionary definitions don't take us very far, though they are generally a starting point. B. No one has said he can prove the existence of God, or that Christianity is true. C. I can arrive at belief in God without proof, and you can arrive at unbelief in God without proof. Same level of faith. D. That equanimity (in "C")is evidence of a heart of faith that is trying to be a good heart.
Steve.
Not at all. If there is not evidence, and I do not develop a view contrary to that lack of evidence, I have not adopted a position on faith. Consequently our positions are not intellectually equal.
Wrong again. I can choose to believe fire is not hot. If I never get close enough to experience evidence that it is hot, I can claim I am correct because I have no evidence that it is hot. Sometimes, not always, the position we start from is what leads us to our conclusion.
G'nite.
Steve.
"I was a deerhunter long before I was a man." ~Gene Wensel's Come November (2000) "A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user." ~Theodore Roosevelt
