It was sort of a joke between us - him calling me to task for my skepticism, for my overthinking. A skepticism which is not a desire that these things be false or a seeking to disprove, but a yearning for definitiveness, for the experience of certainty that touches more than my intellect. I have experienced this certainty at times - rare times - but I will freely admit that while I actually find the intellectual claims of theism and Christianity convincing, something always still nags. A hunger, I suppose, for a full embrace of Love.
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It is a very hard question. How does faith co-exist with a desire for proof or certainty? Is it rational to believe things that cannot be proven or disproven (e.g., that Jesus is present in the Eucharist)? If faith is a supernatural gift that makes the arguments and evidence persuasive, how is that any different from credulity?
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