Posted by:
3DGuy
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Date: October 24, 2010 02:20PM
I sincerely wish I could understand this.
I struggle to understand what "faith" is to a member of the church. Even while I was faithfully attending, I asked questions. Not to try to shake the soda, but to legitimately understand issues that seemed to elude me. One example always seemed to come up, faith.
Whenever a question arose that someone could not answer, they would throw faith into the mix. My problem was that I was a pretty big reader at the time. I had so many books from Deseret Books that would clearly demonstrate, with "facts", that all other churches were false. "The Day of Defense" comes to mind. In the book, I can remember at least one chapter that two missionaries were all too eager to demonstrate to their audience of religious leaders of other faiths why they were wrong, and proceeded with their evidence.
My problem was, that in the book, telling other faiths that they were wrong because of evidence was perfectly acceptable; yet try that on a Mormon and they will, with a straight face, tell you that evidence doesn't matter, only faith.
By that reasoning, can't all faiths use that defense?
Confused....