Why do some (not all) Christians feel like they need to discredit evolution and science to "prove" that they are right about Creationism and the bible being literal truth. I've always been taught that faith needed no supporting evidence or facts to back it up. That's not faith at all, is it? Isn't that a LACK of faith? Faith is knowing in your heart that something is true, and goes beyond the need for proof. So why the disconnect?
2006-10-30 16:32:06 · 8 answers · asked by wendy g 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
guru, you've obviously assumed that I'm a fundamentalist Christian, (or a Christian at all). But that is just your assumption.
2006-10-31 01:18:18 · update #1
It's like when someone asks you if your Jedi costume is homemade. It harshes your groove. The presence of non-believers is a threat to those who want everything in the Bible to be literally true. So believers have to develop "facts" to "prove" that everything they believe is "real".
Faith requires imagination, an ability to see beyond what's put before you, and that runs the risk of uncertainty and looking foolish. Literalists don't like any of that. They have to have certainty. They have to have dignity. And in the end, they seem to lose both.
2006-10-30 17:15:30 · answer #1 · answered by skepsis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is not literal and should not be taken that way. The Creation story is just a symbol, I believe some Christians may not think it is or know
If science shows us how hows it all started/life on earth and all we could accept it/so far they haven't.....
Just because we want to know more about something does not mean we lack faith
2006-10-31 00:46:55 · answer #2 · answered by suan_tian 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
faith = believing in something u can't see
when God comes, there will be no need for faith. That doesn't mean that humans should give up all searching for knowledge and truth... that's a very important duity of all christians. And christians who belive findign the truth will go against are religion, don't really understand christianty, and it's deep conection to truth, Jesus himself said he was the way the truth and the light.
2006-10-31 00:47:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have to face the truth that there is always doubt in our hearts. Our Faith is not enough although we say we believe.
2006-10-31 01:17:16 · answer #4 · answered by manang bruka 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
heb 11.1 now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. some christians i belive think that they must prove things. we as christians are not called to do that. we are called to belive. speak the word of god .
2006-10-31 01:51:56 · answer #5 · answered by faith 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because, people believe without knowing, they believe in the unknown based on stories/sermons delivered thousands of yrs ago to different masses, much less developed than the present one.
2006-10-31 00:38:46 · answer #6 · answered by pintu s 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just keep your head buried in the sand, sister. If you keep pulling your head out to talk, you might see too much of the real world to keep living in the one you're in at the moment.
2006-10-31 00:34:06 · answer #7 · answered by the guru 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Thank you, I've always felt that those who are strong in their beliefs have nothing to prove. :)
2006-10-31 00:34:44 · answer #8 · answered by Ivyvine 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋