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Re: [pf] Christianity
by Molly Williams
21 November 2000 18:45 UTC

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David wrote:

> But Molly, isn't belief only relevant when we can't prove that something
> exists? If we could prove it, it'd be a fact. We don't say we "believe"
> that water can exist in three different states, ice, liquid, and steam,
> we have determined its truth and so we say we "know" it. Belief can
> certainly be embracing the mystery, but faith is only necessary because
> we have not been able to prove that God exists. Indeed, that's why it
> was invented.
> 
> If God were a fact, would the mystery disappear?

But David :-), Tom (my husband) is a fact and he's a mystery. For that
matter (so to speak), water is a fact and I see it as mysterious as well
-- that's one of its appeals for me. A thing can be known to exist and
still be a mystery.

I don't want to argue philosophy or religion with you (or anyone else).
I don't believe spirit or deep wisdom or the soul, or whatever you want
to call it, is amendable to words and logic. Matter and spirit exist
differently and require different languages, just as science and art do.
That's my experience, anyway. 

~ Molly