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Old 04-26-2014, 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Parker View Post
I must have been unclear. I am a believer. I don't think we can or should try to outsmart our maker. My point is that we must all learn and understand what we believe for ourselves, not blindly follow a doctrine because someone told us to or because we were born into it.
I did misunderstand your first post. We say the same thing from differing vantages. In your view, if I get you, faith is not a heritage, but a choice made only by volition of the individual.
In my experience, with no birthright of faith, I came to define blind faith differently than you are saying. It was not handed down to me, and so faith is the moment I chose to believe in what I could not prove by logic; therefore trusting in a realm which my mind, however keen, could not see into nor fathom, nor comprehend.