For Faith and Science
by Francis Henry Woods (9781150026225)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1906 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green Subjects: Faith Religion and science Belief and doubt Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PART II WHY DO I BELIEVE? CHAPTER II THE GENESIS OF FAITH IN THE INDIVIDUAL '' Why do I believe ? " What is the answer which a thoroughly thoughtful and well-informed believer in ordinary circumstances would give to this question ? The question is not, "Why ought I to believe ? " but " Why do I believe ? " What is required is not a formal syllogism or a set form of arguments obtained second-hand, but the true inward history of such a man's faith. I. " First, in point of time," he might probably say, "because I have been so taught. My first ideas of God and of Jesus Christ were learnt at my mother's knee, and it never occurred to me in early years to doubt. This knowledge expanded and deepened as I grew, partly by more or less definite religious teaching, partly by religious books, sermons, the wholetone and spirit of religious services, and other influences of the kind. II. " But almost from the very first I was taught to associate religious truth very definitely with the Bible, or less definitely with the Church. If asked why I believed, I should probably have answered, ' Because the Bible says so;' less probably, ' Because the Church says so.' The miraculous or supernatural element in the Bible presented little difficulty. I had a sort of feeling that it was no great wonder if strange things happened in a time and country so unlike our own. Is it, after all, more strange to a child's mind that God should come and talk with men, than that they should have been in those days without railways and without ...

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