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	Christian Fideism

theredwillow

2-15-2009 3:02 PM

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christianity, god, agnostic, existence, faith, proof

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2-16-2009 1:18 AM

chestnut501

Makes perfect sense to me.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/11caccb6-f993-4a8a-8548-e5e1f93a8b2e/791AC9EB-AB06-41D1-A2C5-1060F11C3A37/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agnostic_theism&oldid=268483826" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agnostic_theism&oldid=268483826" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agnostic_theism&oldid=268483826"><P>The following argument is used<SUP class="noprint Template-Fact"><SPAN title="This claim needs references to reliable sources since January 2009">[<I><A title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</A></I>]</SPAN></SUP> to justify <A title="Fideism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fideism">Fideism</A> within the context of Christianity:</p> <DL>
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<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Christian theology teaches that people are saved by faith in God (i.e., trust in the empirically unprovable).</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">But, if God's existence can be proven, either empirically or logically, to that extent faith becomes unnecessary or irrelevant.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Therefore, if Christian theology is true, no immediate proof of God's existence is possible.</LI></UL></DD></DL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/791AC9EB-AB06-41D1-A2C5-1060F11C3A37/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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