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回復 #117 飛魚2008 的帖子
True, a matter of faith defies proof. Otherwise it will not be faith.
However, a matter of faith is not the same as far-fetched imagination, as you suggested.
The difference is that faith can be subject to experience. The assurance of faith is beyond proof, but can be authenticated through experience. For example, love cannot be proven in an absolute sense, but you can experience it so that you can be sure of it beyond a shadow of doubt.
When I married my wife, we knew we loved each other, but did we have absolute proofs? We didn't. We had some circumstantial evidences, but none absolute. We married through a great degree of faith that our love will last forever. Our experience of each other's love grows stronger and stronger through time. We somehow are never able to prove it, but our experience loving each other authenticates it.
Faith in God is similar in many ways. Though it cannot be proven, but can be authenticated through personal experience. Far-fetched imagination can never match this.
That is the invitation of Jesus: "Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest." That is not an invitation of proof, but of experience. Of course, Jesus' invitation is much superior and richer than an invitation of an academic conference that offers proofs. Truths that can be subject to proofs are mechanical truths. Truths of love between dynamic beings of God and humans can only be experienced.
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