Faith...

“ However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"

The issue of faith - believing in the "unseen" - has come up in two distinctly different instances over the past little bit...

New to this blog thing, I started checking out some existing blogs and came across a blog completely dedicated to the promotion of evolution as a pure science. I emailed the blog host which launched a series of back-and-forths which - though very civilized - led us to the conclusion that there wasn't a middle ground for what we believed. Ultimately, he was confident in putting his "faith" (for lack of a better word) in the belief that there is an undiscovered origin of the earth which can be explained by science. Obviously, I believe that the earth originated with the Creator. Either way, both of our viewpoints rely on believing in that which "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, (and) no mind has conceived".

More recently, I was disappointed by a discussion our Sunday School class had regarding their "faith". When I asked them - point blank - about why they claimed to be a Christian, their answers were weak at best. Granted, these are only kids we're talking about. Their concerns are more temporal right now. However, it seems to me that this is a pretty foundational question. I'm still working out how I want to follow up our discussion...