What Will Be Your Defining Moment?

[Pages:20]What Will Be Your Defining Moment?

The Four Great Questions of Faith

1. Origin: where did you come from? 2. Morality: how are you supposed to live? 3. Meaning: what is the purpose of your life? 4. Destiny: where will you go when you die?

Strong Rationalism

"No one should believe a proposition unless it can be proved rationally by logic or empirically by sense experience.

Proof is an argument so strong that a normal person would not have any reason for disbelieving it."

Problems with Strong Rationalism

"No one should believe a proposition unless it can be proved rationally by logic or empirically by sense experience. Proof is an argument so strong that a normal person would not have any reason for disbelieving it."

1. It does not live up to its own standard. It is not provable. 2. It assumes complete objectivity, an impossibility. 3. It is impossible to live by, for anyone!

No one lives by this principle. NO ONE.

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Strong Rationalism ... & Faith

? Imagine applying strong rationalism every time ? Eating at a restaurant ? Eating anything at all, even drinking water ? Driving on the 401

EVERY person lives by acts of faith EVERY day, in life or death situations ... whether they know it or not.

Reason & Faith: Perfect Complements

? Faith: Belief, trust, or confidence in someone or something, such that you act on it.

? Faith: Acceptance that burden of proof is satisfied.

? Burden of proof = Balance of probabilities

Reason & Faith, Together

In most cases, certainty (100% proof) is impossible.

Reason and Faith work together: when certainty is impossible, reason gets you as close as possible, then the remainder is an act of faith.

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