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322 - THE TWO WITNESSES HAVE ARRIVED!!!
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I don't have faith, my friend, I KNOW. For all of it's warts and missing parts the Good News is here. So simple a child can understand, but I guess it's like some electronic gizmos you have to get a child. Brother, we have to be like children and we are. There are so many things in this universe that we think we know and really do not.
Grace to you
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You call it knowledge, i call it your faith. Simply putting your faith in one-sided interpretations of an historical document has nothing to do with knowledge at all.
Its your choice to call it that way, but to me its simply dillusional.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 706657A clearification of faith for you... Faith Most of what is written about faith in religious books miss the mark because the word itself is not understood. In modern English “faith” means believing in something for which there is no substantial proof. But the Greek word pistis, used in the New Testament, means stability in personal knowledge drawn from one’s own experience. It also means to be loyal to that knowledge by living in accordance with it. Pistis also means to be confident in our experiential knowledge. Faith cannot be “awakened” in a person by reading books, listening to discourses, or engaging in discussions. It comes only from within, from his own self. Saint Paul underlined this when he wrote that “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”2 Note that he says substance and evidence. Faith is not an insubstantial idea. This is no matter of mere intellectual acceptance or emotional hope. Faith is proof that a person has experienced the reality of something; it is not a mere conviction based on reason or feeling.
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