Christianity does NOT require BLIND faith WITHOUT evidence!
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Christianity does NOT require BLIND faith WITHOUT evidence!
In fact, BLIND faith is often VERY dangerous! Throughout the Bible, God / Jesus, His prophets and apostles provided tremendous evidences SO THAT PEOPLE WOULD COME TO FAITH. God knows that some people need certain evidences and understandings to believe - and those understandings will vary from person to person. And God also knows what understandings each of us TRULY need, as opposed to what one might assert they need. The Bible says that Jesus understood evidence - even powerful miracles - were not enough for people that were simply determined not to come to faith (see the video linked, at the bottom, below):
Matthew 11: 20 Then he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent. 20 Then he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent. 21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
And many came to belief per Jesus miracles! But some, so determined to not believe and receive and obey Jesus' message. After seeing Jesus astonishingly heal a demon-oppressed, blind and mute man, the Pharisees were so determined to reject Him that they said, "It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons.”
When God delivered Israel from slavery in Egypt, He did so with extraordinarily miraculous plagues - each of them designed to show the powerlessness of Egypt's key god's. In fact, the evidences of the plagues were so powerful, that Exodus 12 tells us many Egyptians also left Egypt with the Israelites, noting that "38 A mixed multitude also went up with them."
In fact, this website has many links to the amazing scientific evidences God has left across His Creation, revealing His immense power and intelligence, from the Big Bang to our DNA coding, per how the earth and universe is astoundingly fine-tuned (use the search box!).
Here, apologist Mike Winger exposes the false belief many have, believing God calls us to a BLIND faith - yet, the turht is much the opposite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIJORjiOWeI