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I already have. The issue now is that you clearly think I haven't understand you, so please answer my question: What is it that you think I haven't understood?
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Bible Study Is faith, by definition, blind?
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You are doing that again and again. I keep asking the same question, and you keep refusing to answer it straightforwardly. I don't have time for this kind of childishness. If there was an ignore button for you, I would have done it a long time ago.
This is my last attempt to communicate with you.
Let proposition P1 = The Lord does not want blind faith from anyone.
Is P1 true?
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I haven’t ignored anything. You’re the one ignoring my question. For the third time: What is it that you think I haven't understood?
True faith is blind. It is always based on something that we cannot see, but that we know is there. So, in the sense that blindness is an inability to see, then faith in God and all that He has revealed to us ultimately boils down to our having faith in the one that is taught to us through the book, does exist, but we cannot see Him. We can see the marvelous work of His creative abilities, but we can't see God. So ultimately one's faith in God is based on an inability to see the one in which your faith is placed. But don't worry. We will!!!!!
But yes, the term blind faith, as used by most as a retort, is a faith that seems unreasonable when the facts are considered. And so we say of people who believe such things that it is a blind faith.
But yes, the term blind faith, as used by most as a retort, is a faith that seems unreasonable when the facts are considered. And so we say of people who believe such things that it is a blind faith.
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For the 4th time, you don't understand my definition of blind faith. If you do, then answer this:
Let proposition P1 = The Lord does not want blind faith from anyone.
Is P1 true?
BTW, is there a way for me to ignore all your comments? This is the 1st time I have asked you this question.
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Correction, that was the first time, and you never actually defined it. Here is the issue: you quoted Josh McDowell and said he gave a false dichotomy. However, you ignored how “blind faith” is commonly defined, and almost certainly used that way by McDowell, and so you set up your own definition, a straw man, as “proof.”
What definition of blind faith are you using—yours or the Josh McDowell’s?
No. You can’t ignore staff.
No. I didn't know there was one.
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I don't have the time to teach you how to read English, so I recommend that you pay an English teacher to do so.
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Tony Chan, why is it that you post a thread asking people questions, and as long as you are the one requiring others to answer you then things are fine, but when they require you to answer theirs you respond with insults like this? I have read through this thread and you seem to be evading continually. I realize this is not the case everywhere, but there are rules on this forum about repeatedly dodging others. Along with being rude, It is often interpreted as evidence of someone being more interested in simply winning (or appearing to win) a debate rather than actually seeking after the truth together.
You posted this thread, which means you ought to be prepared to field questions posed to you concerning it. If you are capable of answering, I suggest you do so. The following was not a difficult question to answer, and you appear to be deliberately evading him.
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Go ahead. Quote my words of evasion.
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TonyChanYT many of us have given you the definition of faith with scripture, but yet you would rather believe faith is blind because others can not see our faith as you posted in the OP.
James 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
True faith is not just an intellectual belief, but also a lived out expression of that belief through actions or works. Faith is demonstrated by our obedience to the words of God as our faith is perfected by the works we do unto the Lord that others can physically see like that of what has been written in Matthew 25:31-40.
James 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
True faith is not just an intellectual belief, but also a lived out expression of that belief through actions or works. Faith is demonstrated by our obedience to the words of God as our faith is perfected by the works we do unto the Lord that others can physically see like that of what has been written in Matthew 25:31-40.
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