What is the difference between these two statements:
"I believe in God."
"I believe that God exists
"Believe in . . ? or "Believe that . . ."
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"Believe in . . ? or "Believe that . . ."
Post #1If all the ignorance in the world passed a second ago, what would you say? Who would you obey?
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Sometimes I think that true belief in God is a 'secret society' - in the best sense of the expression!cnorman18 wrote:I keep saying that there is a great deal more to this thing called "religion" than intellectual assent to a set of theological and even supposedly factual propositions. It sometimes -- nay, often -- seems to me that neither fundamentalists nor nontheists can see the forest for those rather peripheral trees.mgb wrote:Karen Armstrong in her writing reminds us that the original meaning of the word 'believe' means faith or loyalty. An intellectual acceptance of philosophical thinking or theology is not the same as belief/faith/loyalty in this sense. Intellectual assent to abstract ideas about God or loyalty to God is the difference, I think.
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