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To: DManA
"Nonsense. The faithful don't need proof and the faithless won't believe it."

I don't agree with that. It sounds like fatalism. We are instructed to be ready to give a defense of our faith.

2 Timothy 2:25
...in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
385 posted on 12/06/2006 5:37:34 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: PetroniusMaximus
I think you mean fideism.

-A8

386 posted on 12/06/2006 5:47:24 PM PST by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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To: PetroniusMaximus
Gleefully wave a bag of bones in the face of a nonbeliever and you are only confirming his suspicion that we are a bunch of goofy cultists.

give a defense of our faith.

406 posted on 12/07/2006 4:57:34 AM PST by DManA
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