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Originally Posted by Russ B
On that basis are you suggesting satan is a Christian?
And isn't *believing in something* the same as having faith it exists?
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Satan isn't human. I'll refer that one whether angels or other entities are christians upstairs. In anycase if one believed in the more narrow definition of faith the answer would be irrelevent as they couldn't have faith in the same way.
No, *believing in something* isn't always the same as having faith it exists. I've already said I think faith as a general set of religious beliefs, christians have. The more specific definitions of faith of doing something with specific meaning, of which hundreds of years have been spent arguing about it, no. People seem to spend a lot of time saying they have more faith than someone else, but to me it sounds to me as something more never reached, again which is why I said I don't think most Christians have it. Maybe you disagree, maybe you think every true Christian is a Knight of faith. The vast majority of Christians do say they have it in some way or other and I'm not really interested in telling them their beliefs are wrong or they must/must not have it to be true Christians. It's not really possible summing up any of these in short messages on an internet forum.
My original point that seemed to have been missed was a large part of the series is history, or history of the religion. There's nothing funny about that, a book I've read was called The History of Christianity for that very reason. A point about a history of faith is it would be a documentary in large part on what individuals in the past believed. If one wanted to make a documentary about the narrower definition of faith that'd be pretty much probably end up a history of protestant theology though. I'm sure Ann Widdecombe will mention some of this in a few weeks
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