Mormon, atheist debate definition of faith

Those comments.

Faith is the seed of creative power. No invention, composition, sculpture or painting ever created, and no architecture ever constructed without the principle of faith: the ability to believe in something yet to be seen or realized. To ignore the principle of faith is to limit oneself to the current capacities and understanding of mankind. There would be no new discovery and no new knowledge gained without the principle of faith. To ignore the principle of faith is to declare that anything worthwhile has already been discovered, invented or created. To ignore the principle of faith is to abandon any future progress or improvement, and therefore any hope for a better future.

Now, this could be a good comment. Yes, sometimes you need faith (faith that humanity will do the right thing, faith that things can be better, etc.). But the idea that you need faith in a god is false.

Faith is simply EVIDENCE of things not seen. There are laws for everything, even gaining evidence of those things we can't see. Once that evidence is obtained, we can count it as EVIDENCE. Then, it is not whimsical, made-up, imagined or anything else in that spectrum. It becomes real, tangible, interactive EVIDENCE.

I don't think this person understand what faith is, or what evidence is. Because otherwise, every single religion ever is true, simply because people had faith in them. I don't think that is what they are actually trying to argue though.

The Bible records men and women who heard the voice of God, and saw the resurrected Christ. Many felt with their hands His wounds and testified of His reality.

How can one dispute the testimony of those that saw, heard, and felt for themselves.

But because we believe we are more "enlightened", we insist on seeing, hearing, feeling for ourselves before we too can believe.

I don't think they understand that you can't use the bible to prove what is written in the bible.

All in all, about what I would expect from a comments section.

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