[quote=DBT]There it is, Christian tolerance on full display. Make Jesus, the Saviour that you profess to believe in proud, guys. Unable to engage in rational discussion or debate, Men? Adults? Nah, schoolboy level insults are all you have.
Virtually every broad and sweeping comment you and your buddy make are nothing more than your opinions stated as fact …simple opinions….nothing more. Mostly you offer no proof or supporting evidence.
Your statements are therefore “unfalsifiable” as they are simple opinions and you have set yourself up as the “judge” over your own opinions.
Your keyboards are just baloney factories.
You just forge right ahead and demonstrate once again that your keyboard is nothing but a baloney factory.
"Faith is like a piece of blank paper whereon you may write as well one miracle as another." ~ Charles Blount (1654-1693)
The deep meaning behind a blank sheet of paper is related to evidence in that it provides the starting point for the hope in providing truth. When we embark upon a journey of hoping to find the truth, we effectively start with a metaphorical blank sheet of paper. As we continue on with our journey, we write the events of that journey on that sheet of paper, creating a story as we do so…..just like the scriptures of the Apostles of God the Bible, as such, we hope this leads to the truth.
Nothing of the sort. You are imposing your own terms onto the quote, which does not mean what you suggest. It is true that faith i source of hope and consolation, but that's not the point of what Blount said about faith.
Yes, those are my ideas, not Blounts...That is your opinions/ideas, and I have mine.....his own Christianity was founded exclusively on reason, but later denied miracles, attacked religion and other Christian religious ideals....the poor gentleman took his own life in the end.
The quote by Blount expresses a basic fact: that faith allows anything to be believed - however absurd - because no evidence or rigorous inquiry or testing is needed....it is enough to just believe whatever is in a 'holy book' and told by priests and pastors who study it: a collection of works written and compiled by human minds and human hands, expressing what was believed by people centuries past who had no idea of the scope and scale of the universe or our infinitesimal place in it....which was discovered by science, not faith or religion.
No issues with that and as I stated before, Blount in the end of his life denounced anything religious....oh well, such is life, but for what it is worth I still like my idea of the "blank sheet of paper"....but obviously you absolutely will not like my idea....I bet we can agree on that.
