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Fellow Christians, do you base your faith more on experiences, logical evidence, or both? Only nice answers please.?
By experience, I mean miraculous events that could only be explained by God. A stranger saying just the right thing to you/words of knowledge, etc.
And by logical evidence, I mean scientific foreknowledge in the Bible, fulfilled prophecy, etc.
6 Answers
- SBR32277Lv 72 years ago
I will have to answer for my Christian sister since I am an atheist but she uses (or attempts to use) both. She tries to convince me that her God is real by sharing what she believes to be facts that support her faith. She tries using what she believes to be good reasoning. She also has had what she believes to be personal experiences that she uses to affirm her faith. When I try to demonstrate what good reasoning looks like, she often gets a blank look on her face like she can't comprehend or changes to a new topic that she feels she has a better case for. She simply has an irrational mental block that will not let her follow my better reasoning. Yesterday I told her in Genesis, God placed the vegetation before he placed the sun. She did not believe me so we looked it up. She could see I was right but attempted to reinterpret as having some kind of spiritual meaning as opposed to whoever wrote Genesis clearly attempting a literal description. She attempted to claim the Light was Jesus, but I pointed out that it gets dark before the next day, did Jesus come and go? She knew she didn't make sense and was grasping at any poor excuse to make this glaring mistake in knowledge the inerrant Word of God. I have gone through this over the decades with her, pointing the glaring errors in the bible only for her to end up stumped every time, yet she still irrationally believes the bible is inerrant and still believes I will see that one day. Unfortunately her religion drove a wedge between her and her family, where all three of her children are atheist and her Christian husband left her.
- ?Lv 72 years ago
Why should my faith be based on only one? My faith is consistent through all aspects of my life.
- Anonymous2 years ago
Faith is only supposed to be based on the Bible, nothing else (Romans 10:17). Faith is believing the truth, and the Bible is the truth. The Bible is the absolute Word of God and is 100% true.
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The truth is that death leads to immediate heaven or hell, depending only on whether the person believed in Jesus for eternal life, or not.
The truth is that Jesus loves you and wants to bless your life freely :) Most of all, Jesus wants you with Him forever, and not in hell. The truth is that every belief except one will lead to eternal torment in the lake of fire for every person. Because nothing pays for our sins except the death and blood of Jesus, the sacrifice of Jesus that is already accomplished by Him . Jesus loves you! The truth is that Jesus is God, and Jesus died on the cross to pay for all of our sins in full, and then Jesus resurrected from the dead. Nothing else pays for our sins, not works, not deeds, not religions. So the only way to heaven and to avoid hell, is by believing in Jesus for eternal life (John 6:47), without adding any of your own works (Romans 4:5). Believe in Jesus to take you to heaven, and you will be in heaven, no matter what, guaranteed. That easy, thanks to Jesus! Tell Jesus that you thank Him that you will be with Him in heaven when you die, because you believe in Jesus! It is too late to be saved, after death
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- 2 years ago
All of the above. Especially miraculous events that are literally not humanly possible, like I myself have experienced. Also being a trauma
Nurse I see a lot of unexplainable things before someone dies and they all point to the same thing.. that there is a God. To me denying the existence of a God is illogical and goes against science itself.
There is not an ounce in me that doubts the existence of God. To the point that I would quite frankly die for my faith.