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Originally posted by Greg700
I was being simplistic, but I think there is an essential truth to what I said.
I guess I could refine my statement to say that faith is believing in something so strongly that absolutely nothing, under any circumstances, could convince you that your belief is false or incorrect. However, belief sets will still evolve and change over time as you grow as a person, but the core values must essentially remain the same, or you necessarily showed a lack of faith in those beliefs.
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I guess it's statements like this that kind of scare me off. I certainly don't mean to insult anyone, particularly because you're all being so generous in sharing your thoughts about such a personal subject, and I know that I don't know what I'm talking about. However, I really don't want to have faith if it means closing my mind. If I believe something so strongly that even in the face of all evidence to the contrary I cling to those beliefs, that, to me, seems more like dogma than "faith" per se. At that point, it would seem to me that I was clinging to something familiar and comforting rather than facing facts and adapting accordingly. I guess it depends more on if you value having faith vs. pursuing some truth. Personally, I'd rather have truth than faith, but....here we come back to my conundrum. What do you do when there is little or no evidence? Just keep searching? Where do you even start? With what you already believe, and challenge those beliefs and keep whatever holds up?