>>939411688
That’s just not accurate. Faith isn’t grounded only in scripture—it’s grounded in a convergence of external reasons that people weigh. The scriptures themselves emerged from communities that claimed to witness events, experiences, and transformations they found worth recording and passing down.
But beyond the Bible, there are external supports: philosophical reasoning about the origin and order of the universe, historical attestations to figures like Jesus from non-Christian sources (Tacitus, Josephus, etc.), the persistence of moral realism across cultures, and the universal human drive toward the transcendent.
You can reject the conclusions, but to say it’s literally nothing but baseless claims ignores the centuries of debate, evidence, and lived reality that believers actually appeal to. Faith is trust in light of reasons, not a leap without them.
>>939411723
That assumes a very narrow definition of ‘evidence.’ Faith doesn’t ignore reason; it engages with it. Arguments from cosmology, consciousness, morality, fine-tuning, and historical testimony all provide positive reasons to consider God as a plausible explanation.
Calling faith ‘delusion’ only works if you assume that the only acceptable evidence is empirical or materialistic. But belief in God isn’t based on ignoring evidence—it’s based on weighing multiple forms of evidence that science and reason alone cannot fully account for.
In short, faith isn’t a blind leap into absurdity—it’s a reasoned trust in light of cumulative evidence.
