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Faith is a positive and certainty is a positive. Therefore, faith cannot be the opposite of certainty.
Please elaborate.
That's rather succinct. So long as the sentiment is God has to exist if one understands the term God, so faith is not about believing God exists but rather that God is trustworthy.Ok so you're saying there's not much point in referring to faith in God if it's just a matter of saying a God exists?
Well said. For scripture says faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.I question that faith, particularly blind faith, is a positive.
My problem with that is we postulate a God that can't be physically sensed or measured whose very existence cannot be proven but has always existed and yet we say that God created everything physical. And then we say that our physical universe which can be sensed and measured owes its existence to this hypothetical God. Why can't the universe itself have always existed?
If the universe is Eternal then it's God. Albert Einstein set out to prove that the universe is eternal and ended up convinced it had to have had a beginning in some reasonable meaning of the term. I'm no physicist but I believe he equated the unfolding of the universe as time. Hence the faster you travel in space, time slows down.My problem with that is we postulate a God that can't be physically sensed or measured whose very existence cannot be proven but has always existed and yet we say that God created everything physical. And then we say that our physical universe which can be sensed and measured owes its existence to this hypothetical God. Why can't the universe itself have always existed?
Or just be honest and say I don't know.There aren't that many options:
#1. Everything in this universe has existed forever (existed forever even if in some kind of pre-singularity inflatory state)
#2. Everything in this universe has not existed forever but came into being from somewhere else such as:
#2a. Another universe
#2b. Another dimension
There is no theoretical reason to favour any of these over any other as far as I know. There is no reason to dismiss any of these as viable possibilities either. Thus there is nothing wrong with a willingness to favour one option due to personal bias or because it fits in with ones personal beliefs.
Now what are the chances that the earth is at the center?Jesus drew me to him to a large extent through the study of geocentrism.
Perhaps the leading exponent of geocentrism is Catholic Bob Sungenis, who's mighty 3 volume tome entitled 'Galileo was Wrong' is now in maybe its 12th edition. I highly recommend reading it, as it covers a wealth of mainstream physics and cosmology (including the Planck data). The website is here: Galileo Was Wrong. They've also released documentaries such as 'The Principle', (also discussing Planck among others). Trailer and link to site here:
Despite the many attempts to demonstrate that the Earth moves in space (should be easy!), it has never been proven by either observation or experiment. We are at the center of it all. Praise God!
Now what are the chances that the earth is at the center?
What is in between would be a revelation of Who He is.Well God doesn't take chances. He knows the tav from the aleph.
What is in between would be a revelation of Who He is when expressing His thought.
Respectfully, I only care to understand the cause and purpose for creation.When scripture gives us scores of unequivocal teachings that the earth is immovable and none that are remotely consistent with heliocentrism, that's cause for absolute faith. Or do ye doubt, according to the teachings of man?
Respectfully, I only care to understand the cause and purpose for creation.
I only understand He's trustworthy whatever He does.If you misunderstand creation, could you also misunderstand the creator?
The term believe means "trust".If we speak of earthly things and ye believe not, how then will ye believe when we speak of heavenly things?
Ok.The term believe means "trust".
I only understand He's trustworthy whatever He does.
I trust what He says because He's trustworthy. But I don't know what He means exactly when He says He established the earth upon it's foundations, so that it will not totter forever and ever. Totter doesn't sound very good (as in unstable). I understand the sentiments behind His words as don't think you know a lot. As for Joshua and the sun standing still, I figure if God can make a universe, it's not logical to believe He can't stop the sun or make time stand still.Ok.
So when He tells us that:
He established the earth upon its foundations, So that it will not totter forever and ever. (Ps 104:5); and puts Eyov in his place with:
Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. (Job 38:4); and when He helped out Joshua:
Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, "O sun, stand still at Gibeon, And O moon in the valley of Aijalon.", then-
Do you trust what He's saying is true?
Who said that faith is blind?.. it's the natural eye that can't see and is therefore blind.I question that faith, particularly blind faith, is a positive.
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