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Why We Can't Agree on What Faith Is and What We Can Learn From It.

BibleThinker

Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Based on results from a recent poll on the definition of faith we can see that Christians and non-Christians seem to have opposing views of the word "faith". Here's what I think has caused this divide and what I think we can learn from it. Here's the original poll on Twitter https://twitter.com/MikeWingerii/status/1111422821396156418 Here are the graphs developed from the poll https://twitter.com/MikeWingerii/status/1111857443980500992 Here’s my debate with Matt Dillahunty https://youtu.be/Z2FGgkubhZM To support this ministry go to https://biblethinker.org/index.php/donate

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0:00.0

I'm Pastor Mike Winger and this is Bible Thinker the program dedicated to thinking

0:05.8

biblically about everything.

0:07.6

Okay, this worked this time. Welcome to the Tuesday live stream.

0:12.5

We're going to talk about why Christians and non-Christians

0:14.8

can't agree on faith with special guest,

0:17.8

Mika, because she laid down there

0:20.4

as I was getting ready for the stream,

0:21.7

and I didn't want to make her move because she's my cat.

0:26.0

So I did a poll on Twitter. I actually did a Twitter poll with over 1,300 respondents and I asked you know you guys, everybody who would get involved, I just wanted them to give their opinion on the definition of faith.

0:38.0

So let me put up that poll right here, and I'll tell you the story of what, why I did poll and all that but here's the original poll I said hey

0:45.0

What is faith?

0:47.0

Vote so that we will know if you're a Christian or a non-Christian and I put four poll options one of them was that faith is belief without evidence.

0:55.0

Actually, really there's really two options in two categories of people.

0:58.0

Faith is either in this poll, it is belief without evidence, or it is trust.

1:03.0

Belief and trust are kind of synonymous terms, but it was either belief without evidence or just trust.

1:08.0

And for the people who responded to the poll, they were to, hopefully, to vote indicating whether they were Christian or

1:14.1

non-Christian I didn't want to say Christian or atheist I I didn't have enough space in a

1:18.1

poll to put every category in there so I just put Christian versus non-Christian

1:21.4

what is the definition of faith? The results are really

1:25.8

interesting and it's hard to see it from what you're looking at on the screen here because

1:30.9

it makes it look like 60% of people or 55 or whatever think it's trust

1:35.0

but actually when you take these things and you to put them into a pie chart you get a

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