I was thinking the same thing when I posted the article! I get the emphasis upon other seeming more important elements of the faith, but the evidence that God has presented mounts up to an incontrovertible conclusion. I rely upon his promptings, urgings, miracles, affirmations, and all encompassing love, which have an immense evidentiary impact upon my faith.
I once heard a definition of faith that has stuck with me. Faith isn't believing in spite of the evidence but acting in spite of the consequences. Faith is a follow-through from evidence, for me. God constantly bombards us with revelatory data of every imaginable sort. For some, I imagine the evidence is too thin, but that's just because the relationship hasn't yet begun from their side to God.
I agree with 2/3 of this, John, former student of mine...The part I don't agree with is that proofs for the existence of God distract us from real faith. I think they are most useful, especially when we doubt because of tragedy. Maybe you and readers should google St. Thomas Aquinas, Proofs for the Existence of God and think about them again or check out Why be an Atheist if.....a book I wrote with Dr. Sebastian Mahfood who brings in the scientific confirmations of those arguments.
I was thinking the same thing when I posted the article! I get the emphasis upon other seeming more important elements of the faith, but the evidence that God has presented mounts up to an incontrovertible conclusion. I rely upon his promptings, urgings, miracles, affirmations, and all encompassing love, which have an immense evidentiary impact upon my faith.
I once heard a definition of faith that has stuck with me. Faith isn't believing in spite of the evidence but acting in spite of the consequences. Faith is a follow-through from evidence, for me. God constantly bombards us with revelatory data of every imaginable sort. For some, I imagine the evidence is too thin, but that's just because the relationship hasn't yet begun from their side to God.
I agree with 2/3 of this, John, former student of mine...The part I don't agree with is that proofs for the existence of God distract us from real faith. I think they are most useful, especially when we doubt because of tragedy. Maybe you and readers should google St. Thomas Aquinas, Proofs for the Existence of God and think about them again or check out Why be an Atheist if.....a book I wrote with Dr. Sebastian Mahfood who brings in the scientific confirmations of those arguments.