The basic problem you have is that if you allow for human misinterpretation, then you require humans to use reason and logic along with faith. Most don’t want to do that, they just want to blindly follow something. Hence, otherwise smart people who believe idiot things, like there were dinosaurs on noah’s ark, which in fact existed.
>> The basic problem you have is that if you allow for human misinterpretation, then you require humans to use reason and logic along with faith. Most don’t want to do that, they just want to blindly follow something.
This is a vast overstatement, and a liberal caricature of people of faith. To contend that “most” believers want to “blindly” follow rather than using “reason and logic along with faith” is simply not true.
Many believers, myself included, have arrived at their faith due to reason and logic. I believe this is the state of the VAST majority of the faithful.
Certainly, there are leaps of faith for any believer which requires belief in events which are beyond scientific proof ... but I believe it arrogant to contend that the human mind is fully capable of grasping the divine. True wisdom is knowing when something is beyond one’s understanding — true arrogance is contending that because one cannot understand, it must not be true. To await “proof” prior to any belief is simply ridiculous.
Granted, there are some believers who will blindly buy whatever their pastors tell them — but I’d venture that their numbers are vastly outweighed by the number of people that believe blindly in their own “moral compass” or their own “reasoned” assessment of the world. Personally, I’ll take someone who “blindly” has faith in God over someone whose “blind” faith is in themselves alone.
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