The Seven Questions Creationists Cannot Answer (I): Re: Re: Re: Re: Twice pardoned

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In response to Re: Re: Re: Twice pardoned posted by Craig93:

"Faith is a tangible thing based on factual and logical proofs. craig"

Here's a place where you are laboring under false understandings, Craig. Wikipedia is an excellent source for definitions and here is its definition of faith:

The word faith has various uses; its central meaning is similar to "belief", "trust" or "confidence", but unlike these terms, "faith" tends to imply a transpersonal rather than interpersonal relationship – with God or a higher power. The object of faith can be a person (or even an inanimate object or state of affairs) or a proposition (or body of propositions, such as a religious credo). In each case, however, the faithful subject's faith is in an aspect of the object that cannot be rationally proven or objectively known.

In religious contexts, "faith" has several different meanings. Sometimes, it means loyalty to one's religion. It is in the latter sense in which one can speak of, for example, "the Catholic faith" or "the Islamic faith." For creedal religions, faith also means that one accepts the religious tenets of the religion as true. For non-creedal religions, faith often means that one is loyal to a particular religious community. In general, faith means being sure of what you hope for and certain of what you do not see with your physical (as opposed to spiritual) eyes.

Once factual evidence or proof has been produced, faith is disolved. By declaring the Bible to be the revealed, inerrant and infallible Word of God, persons show their faith is in the bible and what is written in it. There is no solid evidence the Bible is such. In other words, they put the Bible foremost over everything else. Once that point is accepted, all the issues are settled. The only arguments left are those within the groups that put their faith in the Bible.

-- posted by Pinky102