Okay, Thank You for Your Response.
You appear to be fooling yourself, judging by that last comment. Or maybe you cannot help yourself.
Perhaps I was wrong in thinking you realised the meaning of your responses?
(Which leaves you an interesting dilemma as to how to answer that.)
Richard
No dilemma.
I was posting information about Nicaea and Voltaire, and comments about how discussion needs to be based on accurate information.
You ignored all that in favour of posting personal attacks while complaining about non-existent ones.
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OK, so you really have no idea how offensive you are, or how your comments come across.
I guess ignorance really is bliss, yet it is me who is supposed to be ignorant, according to you.
Just think about how it feels to be perpetually told you are ignorant, clueless, uneducated and wrong.
And then, perhaps, realise that you are not the fount of all knowledge and/ or infallible.
Richard
On my side of the pond that makes you a pastor, but I guess tomato / tomatto. And even if you don’t want to take on the title of pastor, it still makes you a teacher so the same standard applies.
When it comes to Biblical inspiration there is no single answer and everyone is free to chose their personal favorite. I doubt you know mine.
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The only thing We need to accomplish in This Life is We are Granted into “Our Father’s Mansion”. This is the Self Personal Goal by “Our Father’s” Judgement not Our Judgement of Each Other here.
Condescending to the last.
I really do not care what your view is. That is between you and God. If you wish to discuss it, fine, but there is a difference between discussion and teaching or indoctrination, or assertion. I do the former only, here.
Richard
It is a misunderstanding of faith as an opposite to doubt, confusing faith with blind faith.
The Bible does not prohibit doubt and questioning God. On the contrary, it is applauds it. The book of Job is a good example of this. The friends of Job rebuke him for his doubt and God rebukes these friends.
Faith is not a refusal to acknowledge doubt. It is choosing to believe despite the very real causes and reasons for doubt. Simply refusing to see those causes and reasons for doubt is not faith but willful blindness.
So the answer to Proverbs 3:5 and Matthew 7:7 is that you should seek the truth and trust in God anyway when you find those reasons to doubt. Because our understanding will always be limited. That is also in the book Job.
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That applies to any subject, actually; I’m thinking of the first thermodynamics class where students often have to just trust the professor on things for much of the course because understanding often doesn’t come until later.
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