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What is your standard for belief in a miracle?
The Scottish philosopher David Hume turned religion on its head with this reasoned and well-expressed thought on the miraculous:"That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it...
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What does your belief depend upon?
Is it possible for you to "believe in" god, even though you know that god does not actually exist, except in your mind?
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Belief without the Holy Spirit?
Belief without the Holy Spirit?If what many Christians these days claim is true, that it is impossible to come to have faith in the biblical god without the intervention and interpretation of the Holy Spirit, why was the great commission necessary? Why leave conversion and...
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Where does faith come from? How do you know you're right?
I feel that believing in one religion is not practical. Likewise, there is no way of knowing if there is one God, or any God for that matter. I'm not saying there's not either, though I do trust science it only goes so far... Some things will always be left unexplained. The bottom line is that with...
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Do you believe in Jesus?
Do you believe in Jesus?Do you believe the stories about him and his life?
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What ultimately made you leave faith behind, or embrace faith?
I'm currently in a university class on critical thinking, and it's forcing me to think about a lot of things from perspectives that I've never examined previously. I abandoned my faith in god over the process of many, many years, and there were many factors that played into my decision to...