Sorry, but I don’t buy off on the whole leap of faith concept.
Faith is the reasonable response to the evidence provided. Of course a Calvinist would say God provides our faith, the reason. Faith is not a blind leap.
It's not a leap of faith.
It's a PUSH of Faith.
Someone pushed me. :>)
***Of course a Calvinist would say God provides our faith, the reason. Faith is not a blind leap.***
Of course it is. Faith by definition differs wholly and substantially from reason and proof. The only way that someone could say that their faith was not blind was if they were Gnostic.
There is evidence, sure. I have experienced holy places and been unable to describe or even understand them. I have also experienced one encounter with concentrated evil and cannot describe or be wholly coherant about it either.
We have evidence, but not proof. We have experiences but not substantiation.