What I believe (by E.M. Forster)
It was Peirce, in his magnificent essay “The Fixation of Belief” (1877), who showed how what I call the fundamentalist intellectual style is quite separate from religion. His phrase “fixation of belief” went to the heart of what fundamentalism is about. The fundamentalist temperament tends to search for certainty rather than for errors. The fundame
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Are you willing to pursue truth in your journey to know and be known by the Holy Spirit? Do you have enough humility to be open to the possibility that you have been wrong in your understanding of the Spirit? It’s easy to get into “defensive mode,” where you quickly disagree and turn to proof texts and learned arguments to defend what you’ve always
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In order to truly believe, you have to cultivate faith. And in order to cultivate faith, you need to act accordingly. The essence of acts of faith lies not in great deeds, but in trivial, insignificant acts performed exclusively for God. Pascal said that we all have to “die alone”. And the only true life is the life you live alone, before God rathe
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