Quote (Thor123422 @ 28 Mar 2020 21:53)
"Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." - You are good to believe even if you don't have a good reason.
"2 Corinthians 5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight." - You do not base your belief in experience, you base it on faith.
Really, I could just use your own words to highlight the contradiction. I can see the economy and my wife. I can't see God, and therefore the "faith" I place in them can't be the same thing. One is based on past experience and deduction, and one is expected regardless of experience.
Would you agree to deeper truths of these verses? It is said in the Bible that even the devil and demons believe in God, they have seen, they know He is. Yet they are in rebellion.
It's not a direct answer, a theologian would do a much better job at explaining these verses and the context they were written. What I'm trying to argue is that, sight will indeed not bring you to faith, as even demons who have the complete sight is dead to their own pride and injustice and other evils.
There are plenty of good reasons to believe. But you choose to be sceptical of the good reasons that is.
It's even a gift to man not to fully see. For then we are to live only by faith. There seem to be a danger of seeing and still rejecting, as the demons are subdued.
As for experience and seeing God. Many will confess the inner life and workings of His Holy Spirit. Or that the natural world is a reflection of his Fingerprint. Sure He might be hidden in some sense, while in others He is shining bright as the sun.
This post was edited by LazyDazy on Mar 29 2020 02:30am