For instance, if one looks at geolical evidence you can see the earth is billions of years old, and that life evolved. This is emperical, proven fact. Everything bespeaks it. When you ask a Christian about this, they say, no, we accept Genesis on faith. But they have NOTHING to back it up!
true there are some that take the Bible literally, they are ignorant to some degree of course.. and these people are a small group within the larger term known as Christianity
I myself, do not take the Bible literally.. many of the old testament stories like the creation etc are written to promote a certain reaction from a certain audience.. they were written so that people of the time thousands of years ago could relate and understand..
i do not believe the world was created in 7 days
i do not believe the whole world was flooded at one point.. these things science can easily dispute
what science has not proven wrong is that there is a God, and that Jesus was God, that Jesus died, rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven.. Science has not proven wrong that there is a heaven, that there are angels and demons..
until there is scientific proof that these things are wrong, then i will, by faith, believe in them.
dont get me wrong, i also believe that science will never be able to prove any of that.
Faith is also synonymous with fear. It is saying, "Ok, I have to believe this or I am in danger of eternal hell."
no, faith is saying "if I believe in this i will have eternal life at the right hand of God"
obviously the counter to that is if you dont you wont.. but thats not what faith is about