* Faith as a trust in the fundamental good (as the article now articulates)
* Faith as a trust in the fundamental good (as the article now articulates)
* Faith as hanging on to your reason when emotion seeks to overwhelm it (per C.S. Lewis).
* Faith as hanging on to your reason when emotion seeks to overwhelm it (per C.S. Lewis).
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I'd also like to introduce and analyze the typical nontheist definition of faith -- "Believing without evidence," and to show that ''this'' concept of faith is absent from the Bible and human experience.
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I'd also like to introduce and analyze the typical nontheist definition of faith -- "Believing without evidence," and to show that ''this'' concept of faith is absent from the Bible -- i.e. nobody in the Bible believed without evidence -- they all had overwhelming evidence for belief (as do Christians today) -- so faith must mean something else.
Any objections? [[User:Ungtss|Ungtss]] 15:03, 4 September 2007 (EDT)
Any objections? [[User:Ungtss|Ungtss]] 15:03, 4 September 2007 (EDT)