Post by lowtacks86 on Mar 8, 2017 5:27:36 GMT
Those two examples aren't really "faith", the word "confidence" would be more accurate. We've seen people perform dangerous circus acts before so we know it's possible, thus we're "confident" not "faithful" that a trapeze artist will perform his act without falling because it's been demonstrated before. There's never been any evidence of a magical anthropomorphic creator of the universe (and no flimsy philosophical arguments don't count). It's why people typically don't say they have "confidence" God exists and use a more appropriate word (faith). Do you apply your flimsy definition of "faith" towards everyday mundane things while you're at it? If you call a plumber do you have"faith" he's going to unclog your toilet? Sure does take away a lot of the mysticism from the term doesn't it?