Please Stop Saying Faith Is Belief Without Evidence

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Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

I am very happy to report that the Christian definition of faith is NOT belief without evidence! I'll establish this by looking at specific passages of scripture which refute this definition. The problem is that by saying "faith is belief without evidence" we are no longer talking about the way we hold to a belief. We are saying something about the evidence for the Christian faith. Specifically we are saying there is no evidence. I have a problem with this... and so should you. This ministry exists to help people see the truth of Christianity and to think more deeply and biblically about it. Link to the video "Tough Bible Questions Atheists Ask Answered by Christian Mike Winger" https://youtu.be/omv0RwFlY8A Link to Amy Hall's article on Hebrews 11 and how it doesn't mean "faith is belief without evidence" https://www.str.org/blog/hebrews-doesnt-say-what-atheists-think-it-says-about-faith#.XD5s9VxKhhE

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0:00.0	Okay, many, many people, they mistakenly say that faith is, quote, belief without evidence.
0:11.3	Now I think this is a disastrous statement when it comes to the Christian
0:15.8	faith and it's antithetical to true Christianity. If you make this mistake of saying
0:21.2	faith is belief without evidence, then you have unintentionally
0:24.2	agreed with skeptics that there is no reason to believe in Christ.
0:28.3	Think about that.
0:29.3	You're saying there's no reason to believe in Jesus.
0:31.1	You've given up, perhaps with a smile on your face
0:33.5	thinking that you're perhaps you know representing Christ well here but in this case
0:37.4	it's a mistake. So what we're going to do in today's live stream where we deal
0:42.3	with you know apologetics and theology and all that kind of stuff
0:45.2	is we're going to deal with this issue of what is faith from a Christian perspective and what's
0:49.3	wrong with saying faith is belief without evidence because there's a big error there.
0:54.6	All right so welcome just to get this a couple quick things out of the way just make
0:59.2	sure the live streams work in I see you guys there in the chat. Thanks for joining me. It's great to have you here.
1:04.0	Pretty much every Tuesday at 5 p.m. There's a chance this date and time will be changing in the future. I don't know but at the
1:10.1	moment it's at Tuesdays and you can always check my YouTube page if you want to see
1:14.8	when my weekly live stream is I'll update my banner if I ever change the live stream time so it'll be on there.
1:21.5	If you guys have questions if you want to interact with me live at the end of this
1:26.4	live stream, then what you can do is you can load those questions into the
1:29.6	comments section and my friend AJ is going to be there in the comments saving at least some of those
1:35.3	questions.
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