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Wade A. Tisthammer
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Date Posted: 09/ 2/03 11:56am
In reply to:
Ben
's message, "Faith and evidence" on 09/ 1/03 9:20pm
>>Okay, I can understand predictions like that. But how
>>about others like, “Babylon will be destroyed and
>>never be reinhabited?” (Isaiah 13:19-20) Babylon was
>>the commercial and cultural metropolis of the
>>time. A modern equivalent would be that New York City
>>would be destroyed and never be reinhabited. If it
>>came true, I'd say there's a good chance that genuine
>>prophecy might have been involved. This prophecy is
>>especially daring considering the defenses of the city
>>at the time: walls 30 stories high and 11 car-lengths
>>thick; even with WWI technology this would have
>>stopped an entire army cold. The prophecy would have
>>seemed extremely unlikely at the time it was made.
>>Without a specific date, the evidential effect of the
>>prophecy coming true may be limited even though it is
>>a bold one (one source, Peter Stoner in Science
>>Speaks: An Evaluation of Certain Christian
>>Evidences, has estimated the odds of the above
>>prediction coming true to be 1000 to 1), but
>>nonetheless that the prediction came true does provide
>>at least some degree of rational support.
>
>All this talk makes a question spring to my mind: if
>you ever really had enough "evidence" to make you
>certain that the Christian God really exists, where
>would be the place for faith? Isn't faith esteemed
>highly in the Bible? How could you have faith if you
>were logically certain you were right?
You and I evidently have different ideas of what "faith" is. I read faith as faithfulness, loyalty, reverence (for God) and trust. I have faith in my friends, which is to say I trust them, not merely believe in their existence. I should have faith in God, i.e. trust in him even when things look bad.
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