Christians: Please think before you answer...?

Question

Doesn't your belief-system limit your objectivity?
Wouldn't you agree that all beleifs are relative (to culture/experience)?
Isn't faith a belief with no evidence?
Do you truely think for yourself (or were you told)?

Answer 1

Those who say that there are no absolutes are often very adamant about their belief. If they say that they are absolutely sure, then they are wrong because their own statement is an absolute. If they are not 100 percent sure, then there is a chance that they are wrong and they are risking their eternal salvation by trusting in a wrong belief. God tells us that there is an objective, absolute truth that is not subject to man’s interpretations or whims, on which we can base our eternity. That truth is the Word of God (John 17:7).

Answer 2

Ironic. I think the same about you. If everything is relative, how then do you have an absolute definition of faith? When all is relative with no firm ground, how can you look at this objectively? Have you read the Bible entirely, or is what you know based on what you've been told? Do you really think these questions about Christianity are original, or is it from what you've heard? Friend, we seem to be at an impasse? What do we do now? I always find it difficult to talk to a relativist. There is no focus or direction, no conviction, no committed, pesonal belief. At least I stand on the word of God. Where do you stand? I don't know. I guess it's all relative.

Answer 3

1. If your belief-system limits your objectivity, than Christianity is only one of MANY belief systems that would limit your objectivity. Correct?

2. Yes, beliefs are relative to culture and experience.

3. Faith with evidence, the Bible and the word of God are evidence. Evidence being relative to your culture and experience right? If the Bible is not a part of your culture and experience than it most likely would not be considered evidence of your beliefs.

4. Me, I am think for myself cuz I am what is known as a "questioning believer". Still, relative to my culture and beliefs.

Limit my objectivity in what way? I am open to discussion, I am capable of changing my mind.

It's all relative, to use someone else's words.

Answer 4

To some people, to some Christians even faith is indeed faith with no evidence. I'm a Christian and I don't see it that way. I'm a Christian because I believe that an honest look at the evidence leads me to believe that Christianity is true. In apologetics, the evidence for Christianity generally falls into four categories: Manuscript, Archaeological, Prophetic and Statistical Probability. I believe documented miracles make up another source of evidence for Christianity.

Here is how I think about having faith: When you buy canned soup, do you really know there's soup inside? No, but you have a picture on the can and experience buying soup so the evidence all points to the notion that there is indeed soup inside the can. I'm a Christian because I think the evidence points that way.

Answer 5

Athiesm and Agnosticism limit objectivity too because they are assumed absolutes. Similarly, they catch snagswhen compared to culture as well. More than 4 out of 5 people in this world believe in the supernatural. Religion is a part of virtually every culture, which is a difficult cultural argument for athiesm to surmount. Faith IS the belief in things unseen, it is the bridge of belief between known fact and assumed reality.

Answer 6

Beliefs, should be, a conclusion of a search. In other words your beliefe should be the answer for your question that you researched. In that contex no it doesent. I say should be because some just believe what they are told, no matter what beliefe.

Beliefs can be relitive to culture but like I say in my last answer they should be researched and well thought out.

Faith is belief with no absolute proof. There is evidence for my beliefe and enough reason to convince me to put my faith in it. I do not believe God wants blind faith. But because God is out of our experiance and so different, we can not understand or comprihend everything.

I have found my faith and it is different then both of my parents beliefs and different then the majority of my friends and family.

Answer 7

You ask if faith is belief with no evidence.
That's not right.
We believe because Scripture says it is so. We trust that Scripture was written by G-d, so we have absolutes.
Many times our faith is challenged in the middle of a situation where Scripture says one thing, yet life's circumstances are showing us something else.
This is the very atmosphere where our faith is put to the test. Do we believe Scripture, or circumstance? Many times when we choose to believe Scripture over what our eyes see, we DO get evidence. Our faith invites G-d in, & the situation changes to our benefit. Hence, we get evidence. This only increases our faith.

Answer 8

For many years I believed what I was told. Then I decided to study Theology and discovered to my amazement that a lot of thing I was told to believe was being questioned in the course I was doing. This opened my mind to ask more questions and discover the answers for myself. This has tremendously boosted my faith because I found that there is nothing in the Bible historically that has ever been disputed and I drew closer to God through my studies. I don't think faith is necesarilly relative. In my country the majority of indian people for instance are christian.

Answer 9

Faith is belief without evidence. You either have faith or you don't. I believe in god, but not in religion. Religion is clearly flawed, but that doesn't mean that you can't have faith. I have faith in my husband. I don't have proof that he isn't cheating on me, but still I know he isn't. That's faith. I definitely think for myself which is why I gave up catholicism. In first grade a nun told me that an unbaptized baby wouldn't go to heaven. I knew that couldn't be right. That would mean that god was a jerk, and clearly god isn't a jerk. Therefore, the religion is wrong and that's how I stopped being catholic.

Answer 10

Excepticism cannot and will not explain faith ever.
But just as you or I cannot explain what salt tastes like, (...really try explaining that... not sweet, not sour.... we say what it doesn't taste like but we can't say what it tastes like) faith has it's own evidence.
Christian belief-system really opens your world, in no way limits your objectivity, never will.