Comment by Gugteyikko on 25/01/2020 at 00:09 UTC

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View submission: Individuals are required to make many decisions daily. Due to the limited capacity of human understanding, all decisions must be made bearing some level of ignorance. Thus all decisions employ a Kierkegaardian Leap of Faith at some point in their resolution process.

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Thanks for your thoughts! I recognize that the author and Kierkegaard are not talking about my second definition, and I used their definition in point 2. I just brought up the other one because the comments on people who criticize faith were off-base.

I’m fine with a saying that I use faith **if** the definition does not include accepting any proposition on insufficient evidence. This definition would not apply to someone who affirms God’s existence on the basis of faith, and I’ve never actually heard any Christian use this definition when talking about their own religion. It seems like a misleading and unhelpful definition.

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Comment by reasonablefideist at 25/01/2020 at 00:35 UTC

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I’ve never actually heard any Christian use this definition when talking about their own religion.

Pleased to meet you :) Although I will admit that faith has many complex and sometimes competing definitions for me. Kierkegaard defined faith at least 3 times in his works and in quite different ways each time.

Some more info

And a super relevant essay[1] I happened to read this morning.

1: https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/not-this-real?fbclid=IwAR2XqVp7Yx_JgU_-0MeMRZ-L-fOr-7jYs2FhahRmEKfTrLnWz41eS7-m0Co