Oh great, no need for faith anymore. Bible? Who needs that if there is "proof" of God?
This is already addressed in my article "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", pp. 62-63:
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Nor does the fact that God has been proven to exist according to the known laws of physics leave no room for faith. Recall that Jesus Christ defined Himself as the truth (see John 14:6). Hence, truth, particularly scientific truth, confirms the existence of God and Yeshua HaMashiach as the Second Person of the Trinity.
The word used in the New Testament for faith is pistis (pÐstij), which means persuasion, as in persuaded by the evidence. It further carries the meaning of a ground of belief, a guarantee, an assurance. Faith in the Christian sense is trust in the truth, even when things seem hopeless. It does not mean a lack of rationality in coming to belief in Jesus Christ. Indeed, Paul appealed to reason when he wrote in Romans 1:19,20 that an understanding of the natural world leads to knowledge of God:^160
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because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, . . .
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After all, some form of reason must be used in order for a person to convert in belief from one religion to another; or from any belief to another belief, for that matter. It can either be veridical reason, or false reason--but some process of reasoning must be involved.
Having faith in God is having trust in the truth, since the Godhead in all Its fullness is the highest obtainment of truth: said state is the infinite perfection of all knowledge. As Paul wrote, If God be for us, who can be against us?^161
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Footnotes:
^160 New King James Version.
^161 Romans 8:31, King James Version.
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