What Percent Out Of A 100 Are You Convinced That The God Of The Bible

[Guest]

I wonder if there will be any below 100. It sorta makes a case that faith is a real thing. Not just some figure of speech.

Edited December 14, 2011 by Guest

[Guest]

If a poll was taken of all catholics in the world today I wonder what the percents and numbers would be....

[brianthephysicist]

[quote name='Delivery Boy' timestamp='1323833342' post='2350931']
If a poll was taken of all catholics in the world today I wonder what the percents and numbers would be....
[/quote]
Sadly, it's probably fairly low. Unfortunately, there is a large percentage of people that call themselves Catholic, but don't make any effort to practice their faith.

[Mark of the Cross]

I think therefore I am and I can only think because God made it so. It's the only thing that is 100%. Sense without God, there is non! 100%

[Jesus_lol]

im not 100% sure, i think that is fairly silly. In my heart i am certain enough that god exists, but logically i have doubts, and I think many honest theologians would likely be the same.

[Laudate_Dominum]

Over 9000%!!!

[Ice_nine]

It varies. Right now this very moment probably 85%. I've been at 100% before, and I've probably been as low as 10%. Those were miserable times.

[Guest]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' timestamp='1323840008' post='2351027']im not 100% sure, i think that is fairly silly. In my heart i am certain enough that god exists, but logically i have doubts, and I think many honest theologians would likely be the same.[/quote] For sure.

[quote name='Ice_nine' timestamp='1323840809' post='2351038']It varies. Right now this very moment probably 85%. I've been at 100% before, and I've probably been as low as 10%. Those were miserable times.[/quote] 85 % is great.

[Guest]

Only reason I'm 100 is because of some crazy stuff that happened. I didn't meet no angels but it was for sure pretty crazy.

[MissyP89]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' timestamp='1323840008' post='2351027']
im not 100% sure, i think that is fairly silly. In my heart i am certain enough that god exists, but logically i have doubts, and I think many honest theologians would likely be the same.
[/quote]

This is me, too. I stand firm in what I believe, but allow the possibility that I could be wrong. Despite that, I choose to live my life as if I [i]am [/i]right and there is no doubt.

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' timestamp='1323840152' post='2351028']
Over 9000%!!!
[/quote]

I love you, man.

Now, as to the original question ... I don't think I can put a percentage on my faith. I've been all over the map, and as Ice_nine said, at one point in my life close to zero. That was the scariest, darkest season of my life and I hope I never feel that way again. Nihilism kills.

I don't know for sure that I'm right simply because I haven't died yet. If we could be 100% sure, then it wouldn't be faith.

There are moments when what we believe seems like the craziest thing in the world ... and other moments where His presence is so incredibly obvious. Most of the time, I fall somewhere in between.

But I pray for the gift of faith every day, and for the ability to see His fingerprints in the world. I have only a mustard seed, sometimes not even that, but it's enough.

[Laudate_Dominum]

Amen Missy.

[Deus te Amat]

[quote name='Mark of the Cross' timestamp='1323834478' post='2350940']
I think therefore I am and I can only think because God made it so. It's the only thing that is 100%. Sense without God, there is non! 100%
[/quote]

I am not sure that Cartesionism is the foundation on which you want to base your faith...

[MissyP89]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' timestamp='1323847710' post='2351103']
Amen Missy.
[/quote]

I am glad to know that you love me too. Haha.

[penguin31]

98.5%. I accept the truths with great confidence as provided unto me by Scripture and Tradition, while still accepting the possibility, however faint, that I might be wrong. However, I have indeed made the choice to proceed through life on the assumption they're indeed true.

[dairygirl4u2c]

90 percent
that percent is only due to the reservation that the way we conceive of God isn't fair enough to say it's 'God'
if given the assumption that God is "something" higher, and all that jazz, i'd say it's
99.99999%
essentially conceding that there's an extrememly remote possibility that i'm empirically wrong about God, and then even if only theoretically philosophically wrong too, that's also a possibility

Edited December 14, 2011 by dairygirl4u2c

[Papist]

100

[MIKolbe]

[quote name='Deus_te_Amat' timestamp='1323848760' post='2351104']

I am not sure that Cartesionism is the foundation on which you want to base your faith...
[/quote]
I think you mean to say Cartesianism.

And I am 100, but i struggle to live my life as to really be 100.

[Jaime]

[quote name='MissyP89' timestamp='1323844621' post='2351088']



I don't know for sure that I'm right simply because I haven't died yet. If we could be 100% sure, then it wouldn't be faith.


[/quote]

What an elegant response!

[DMcB]

I'll start off with the fact that I can relate to most everything already written. And I'll second that by stating that I am in no way a Church scholar; and to qualify my level of knowledge, I'll admit that "Rediscover Catholicism" is the first Catholic book that I've read in 20 years. (A good place to start, btw).

And to answer the question, I have 100% faith in Our Lord existence. Do I make adjustments for the fact that human understanding of Our Lord could be flawed, even as it is taught/written in the Bible? Yes, I do. But in my understanding, there is so much to Our Lord that the Bible is going to fall short in its depiction of Him; regardless of how accurate the translations/interpretations of the Divinely inspired authors.

[Mark of the Cross]

[quote name='Delivery Boy' timestamp='1323843903' post='2351077']
Only reason I'm 100 is because of some crazy stuff that happened. I didn't meet no angels but it was for sure pretty crazy.
[/quote]
Me too!