There are different senses of the word, but not what I'm getting at; human action in the world (again, save mere survival) is always based on a pre-rational, religious mode of being called faith (even when the object of said faith is not God).
the "proof" concerning reality is not beyond the standard of the capacity of our senses and accounts to establish what has happened. This is not the same as "the faith of hearing"; once we have seen, as Paul says, we do not need "faith" any longer.
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The same Paul who explicitly said we "walk by faith and NOT by sight"? (emphasis mine)
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This isn't contradictory to my point specifically, no. I'm not claiming Christians should "walk by sight", only that people who walk by sight don't "Require" faith, or certainly do not need to extend trust beyond what is immediate.
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The natural man walks by sight and trusts what he sees to be true; trusts that the material world is all there is; etc. Just as you will serve Mammon or God, you will have faith in one or the other.
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yes, of course. But this does not imply that we do not also see, only that what we see we can understand in light of things which "are substantial but unseen", or "hoped for"; metaphyiscal things on one hand and things-yet-to-be on the other, t'which the natural man has no access
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Agreed. I was never positing that Christians need be 'sightless' with regard to natural reality, just that sight is always bound up with whatever framework by which you see and that there doesnt exist an observation platform outside of faith...
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well, again, I think it is sophistic to conflate the trust in senses and experience to that which concerns metaphysical truths and things-yet-to-come. "faith based" is made to imply that our beliefs are only personal convictions about such, and not also about certain facts.
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The existence of the exterior world is a metaphysical claim.
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it's not and you know it isn't.
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