[MD] Faith

[david buchanan]

Hey Joe:

That which gives substance to our hopes? What the heck does that mean? 
Seriously.

And Pauls claim that faith is that "which convinces us of things we cannot 
see" sounds very much like a "belief held in the absence of evidence" to me.

And don't even get me started on all that stuff about your fears, yearnings 
and sexual abuse that follows intimacy. I have no idea what that's suppose 
to mean either.

Sorry Joe, I just don't see your point. Everything's all mixed up.


Joe said:
>Using your definition there is not much to faith. I have read another
>definition by Paul in a letter to Hebrews: "What is faith? It is that which
>gives substance to our hopes, which convinces us of things we cannot see."
>(Hebrews 11:1)
>
>For myself, I am afraid of things that go bump in the night. Yes I have
>hopes and wishes. I hope I express my yearnings in the way I write. I am
>encouraged that Paul also wanted a substance for hope in the things we
>cannot see. If I have no yearning for things I do not know, I don't know 
>how
>I would learn! Yearning and not knowing! What a terrible combination. 
>Sexual
>abuse follows the intimacy of yearning and not knowing. I don't think sex,
>yearning, and knowing are all about the same thing.
>
>Joe

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