ambush80
Senior Member
That's how Sam Harris defined "faith"on his newest podcast (which so far is really interesting).
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In the face of certainty is a better way to say it and it is more correct.
If I was to say, "America right or wrong" without the rest of the context as a definition of being patriotic for example it would not do justice to what the author really meant and could possibly be a purposefully deceptive or ignorant use of the saying with effect to distort what the author meant.
I think this is the case here with faith. Incorrectly assimilated faith can seem to be as Sam Harris might state. It is more of a opinion than an objective fact. Like I say, many know faith as being certain and revealing with certainty the essential and true reality of our existence.
Paul says something like this, ( I paraphrase) " Faith is the means of already having what is hoped for, and to know the realities that we as of yet do not see."
So faith is the means of having and knowing with certainty... "things" positive and negative about most anything.
It is very hard to describe if one has not been there... and got most of their info from books in which case some assume of knowing what they are talking about... yet don't.
There is a saying that to be a disciple is more difficult for a rich man than a poor man. A twenty point higher difference on an IQ score and a very good memory compared to ordinary mortals should have been added to the rich man's purse perhaps...in the saying.
This is a self deception. How could you possibly know that with certainty?
That is a good definition for the AA forum. I would expect no more.
Much like the paramedic's response to the car crash victim who has a fence post through his chest, even though he knows death is imminent.