RE: Faith, what is it?
December 20, 2009 at 1:11 am
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2009 at 1:12 am by tackattack.)
(December 18, 2009 at 12:50 am)chatpilot Wrote: tackattack said "My personal definition of faith is a little different though. It is the conviction of the truth that, while God can not be proven/unproven absolutely, he exists and is testifiable to; from an individual perspective."
I disagree with you here in stating in your own words that the existence of god itself is a "truth" and that he "exist". Faith itself is not a fact and your individual perspective is just that. Subjective evidence or in this case declarations of certitude do not qualify as objective facts.
Maybe I should redefine. Of course Faith is subjective. Experience is objective though. I define the distinction as http://www.asdatoz.com/Documents/Website...%20ltr.pdf
. I try to define Faith as the belief in something (God in this case) , based on a personal objective perspective, despite logic to the contrary. While my personal perspective does hold a lot of my thoughts and ideas it also holds a lot of observable, describable and repeatable incidences. I guess because of my belief in God. atheists automatically deem my personal perspective subjective. But there is a degree to objectivity and based off of what I've observed in the spirit, it's nowhere close to the landslide I think most atheists wish it were (not that I can speak for any).
