tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11928317.post5541598108028123761..comments2024-01-29T14:24:46.852-05:00Comments on Wes Ellis: Faith: Grounded in Realitywellis68http://www.blogger.com/profile/06087588494600746854noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11928317.post-40464542364109169632010-06-09T15:10:34.409-04:002010-06-09T15:10:34.409-04:00Lozeerose,
Sorry it has taken me so long to respo...Lozeerose, <br />Sorry it has taken me so long to respond... wedding planning leaves little time fro blogging. <br /><br />I truly appreciate your prayers! God knows I need strength. Your 1 Corinthians reference is also much appreciated. Indeed without the resurrection of Christ our faith is not only in vain but it is groundless. Yes, we want to be good, yes, we want to be loving but without resurrection, we cannot hope to do so with any fruition. <br /><br />Do disagree with you insofar as I do not see absolute and objective knowledge as part of the Christian faith, let alone an essential thereof. There may indeed be "absolute truth" but our access to it is still fallible and relative. So it remains, at best, an impractical theory in my mind. <br /><br />But we can agree to disagree. <br />Blessings on you, friend!wellis68https://www.blogger.com/profile/06087588494600746854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11928317.post-27394140488836659722010-06-03T15:26:05.768-04:002010-06-03T15:26:05.768-04:00Wes, your explanation concerning faith and the rea...Wes, your explanation concerning faith and the reality therein runs the risk of sacrificing absolute Truth with relativism. This type of thought is not Christian.<br /><br />There is only One Truth and that Truth is not dependent on our belief in it. "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever. (Hebrews (RSV) 13:8)"<br /><br />This Christian relativism is part of the problem with the dis-unity of "Christians." Our Faith is in deed rooted in concrete historical fact, thus the Creeds (as does the Gospel) specifically recount that Our Blessed Lord was crucified under Pontius Pilate. This places the crucifixion in actual history. And although some do not believe, they cannot prove this fact to be false because it did happen.<br /><br />God became man, died for our sins and rose on the third day. "...if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. (1Corinthians (RSV) 15:14)"<br /><br />Faith is all about what happens and what happens. To relegate faith to a feeling or to state that the historicity of our religion is irrelevant is to deny God. Again there is only One Truth and that is Christ. There is One Church and that is the Church of Christ, otherwise known as the Catholic Church whose head is the Bishop of Rome, presently Benedict XVI.<br /><br />Whether you believe this or not does not change the fact that it is true. I will pray that the Lord grants you strength "to be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. (1Corinthians (RSV) 15:58)"Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03567994112449781806noreply@blogger.com