Christians: If you come to believe in God strictly through the evidence...?

Question

...and therefore don't need faith, are you saved despite your lack of faith?

Answer 1

There is enough evidence (the world around us, the Word of God, the testimony of believers) to lead you to Christ, but it requires trust in what He said. The faith part is not merely believing that God exists, but that He did what He said He did.

See, even the demons believe in God, and they shudder. (James 2:19)

But to trust in Jesus Christ's finished work on the cross is an individual thing. It requires faith.

Answer 2

I belive that God exists purely because fact and science shows it. But I believe the bible to be historical fiction.

Therefore, I am not technically a Christian.
As for the afterlife, I honestly cant answer, if there is one, I will be there. If God is all powerful and loves us enough to create an afterlife, then God will either allow all to enter, or allow those who led a good life to enter - either way, im in. If it is only for those with a certain belief, count me out, I dont want to spend eternity with a bunch of hardcore believers.

I said that science proves God. Here it is in a nutshell. Look at the millions of natural laws that exist that allow us to live - gravity, atomic forces, light, just name a few. Change the force of gravity by a small degree and stars cannot exist. There is little chance that this all happened randomly, the odds are more than a billion-to-one. Therefore it is almost conclusive that something created it all.

Answer 3

Faith is the only thing that saves. Evidence can bolster faith, but sometimes faith just means gritting one's teeth and making a decision. After 15 years' marriage to my wife Rochelle, I do not question her faithfulness to me. I worried about it a bit at first, not because there is anything wrong with her, but constant exposure to her love for me convinced me that I never need to worry.

After nearly 20 years of being a Christian, I have seen enough faithfulness on God's part to get me through the tough times.

Tom

Answer 4

What number strawman is this of yours? I've lost count.

You seem to be operating under the assumption that faith and evidence are diametrically opposed. Faith is based on evidence. Let me give you an example. I have faith that my wife loves me. This is based on such evidence as the fact that she married me, that she seems to put up with me, etc. But I could be wrong and she could have done all that for some other reason. However, none of the alternate explanations are as credible as the explanation that she loves me.

Answer 5

nicely, a form of issues. a million. Prayer felt like chatting with a wall. 2. Church looked like the suitable place to pass in case you have been searching for the biggest concentration of vulnerable-minded hypocrites. 3. Religions look to alter with geography and custom, so that's blatantly glaring to me that maximum Christians are Christian because of the fact they have been raised around it, comparable as Muslims, and so on. That takes away credibility because of the fact if one became into dazzling, and there became into an all-useful God, i won't be in a position to think of why it does no longer be prevalent international. 4. No data. no longer even a a million/2-way compelling reason. no longer something yet previous memories written by way of goat-herders. 5. There are 2 kinds of theists around the section the place I stay, and gazing the two one in all them pushed me even farther faraway from believing: a) The fundamentalists, who have faith in issues that are so loopy and outlandish that it appears like an insane guy or woman is speaking. b) The average believers, who think of there's a advantageous happy little Heaven and that's the place their ineffective grandmas are yet they forget approximately each and all of the hatred and contradicting assertions interior the Bible and are for that reason cherry-pickers and shortage credibility. i might additionally prefer to declare here that i in my opinion, particularly needed to be a believer. My suitable pal became into killed final year and that i clung to my very wavering, sparkling ideals for as long as i ought to rationally stand it. i became into plagued with stress because of the fact I had lots of questions in an attempt to make some experience out of Christianity. My strategies at last took over and after gaining expertise of the particularly super concentration of bright loose thinkers in R&S, i desperate it became into finally time to drop the charade and in simple terms admit to myself i did no longer have faith.

Answer 6

1Cr 2:5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God

unless you have experienced God power of the Holy Spirit in your life you can no understand it

Answer 7

No, because before you get into the heaven club, you have to pass the "Abraham Faith Test"

Since no sane person would ever kill their own son, heaven is just an insane asylum.

Answer 8

'belief' is faith. the 'saving' part comes through action.

Answer 9

Define "the evidence".

Answer 10

no one can be saved unless the Spirit draws them.... evidence has nothing to do with it =)