{"id":656,"date":"2013-10-22T19:19:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T11:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowwonderchoices.com\/foodforthought\/?p=656"},"modified":"2013-10-22T19:19:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T11:19:58","slug":"credulity-is-belief-against-evidence-facts-and-truths-cheong-kok-weng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rainbowwonderchoices.com\/thoughts\/credulity-is-belief-against-evidence-facts-and-truths-cheong-kok-weng\/","title":{"rendered":"Credulity is belief against evidence, facts and truths…Cheong Kok Weng"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been said that a wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.\u00a0 We all have the rights to our own opinions; however facts remain factual even if they were to go against our opinions. God who endowed us with the mind – with sense, reason and intellect among others – has meant that we use it to arrive at the right verdict by weighing all the relevant evidence. Refusing to believe something in the face of facts is not skepticism, it is the height of credulity or if you prefer\u00a0gullibility<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>Credulity is belief against evidence, facts and truths. \u00a0Let us stride forward towards freedom (Jesus said in John 8:32″\u00a0And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\u201d)\u00a0<\/span>as God has intended<\/span>– governed by the light of reasons, <\/span>evidence,<\/span>\u00a0knowledge, facts and truths \u00a0and not live in the shadows of credulity concerning creations around us . Through all of Creations, God’s wisdom, power and majesty is proclaimed clearly and it reverberates loudly (if only we care to listen) throughout the corridors of time.\u00a0~ Cheong Kok Weng<\/span><\/p>\n

The great difficulty is to get modern audiences to realize that you are preaching Christianity solely and simply because you happen to think it true; they always suppose you are preaching it because you like it or think it good for society or something of that sort. Now a clearly maintained distinction between what the Faith actually says and what you would like it to have said or what you understand or what you personally find helpful or think probable, forces your audience to realize that you are tied to your data just as the scientist is tied by the results of the experiments; that you are not just saying what you like. This immediately helps them realize that what is being discussed is a question about objective fact \u2014 not gas about ideals and points of view. ~ C.S. Lewis<\/p>\n

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