I don't have that much time tonight so I'm going to have to be incredibly brief and pick and choose which areas to respond to.
Science requires faith in it or else it too is not believed.
I'll even go so far as to say that I agree with it. I may be forced to revise this statement depending on how you carry forward.
But what, if I might ask, would you say that faith in science requires accepting as unproven basics before all the rest becomes provable? For one thing that you might not tend to think of, I'd say that a certain amount of faith in one's fellow scientists is required as one can't reasonably repeat EVERY experiment so when two or three reputable people say they have reproduced a given result (preferably using similar but distinct experimental set-ups?) you have to accept that they do, in fact, have some sort of point.
Well, can you state this in the form of one sentence question?
HOWEVER, for a shorter statement of the same thing, I will refer you to another thing I said in my initial post.
...oh, wait, I think this is actually technically a single sentence, even if a rather long and convoluted one. We may have lucked out...
Crude Summary(I'm bad at summaries/topic sentences): “With basic Faith sufficient for Salvation, and perhaps a bit more to accept some additional closed-ended concepts (so not, for example, the validity of any given mortal authority in determining eternal truth or interpreting the Bible), but including the Bible itself, how much of God’s will is going to HAVE to always remain a matter of Faith until the second coming, and how much can be verified by examining our world scientifically and combining it with our ‘small faith pool’?”
Quick question, and asked in a very gentle tone.....
Where are you on the basics? For example, is there any doubt in your mind that Jesus was who He said He was, and did, indeed, rise from the dead?
Let's start with that.
Where are you on the basics? For example, is there any doubt in your mind that Jesus was who He said He was, and did, indeed, rise from the dead?
Let's start with that.
That being said, I think I have said Statement of Faith from the last time someone asked me that (it was by e-mail and not associated with T-web at all), somewhere and will gladly copy paste it when I have the time to hunt it up, PROVIDED everyone agrees to not get too distracted by it. It might, in fact, be a DANDY place to start, but only AFTER I'm confident that those trying to help me understand the question I'm actually asking.
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