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Who Let The Dogmas Out?

Reason rests upon faith
I am not into fideism
I'm not a fan of the Enlightenment
Or a Cartesian  prison
Mr. Naturalist if you please
Show me where laws grow on trees
Or where numbers hide
And propositions are seen
So you believe what you see
Has anyone ever seen
An abstract entity?
Unbelieving scientists
Obscure and fudge the truth
All the theories they've put forth
Drowned in primordial soup
Liberals say anything goes
Then attempt to condemn a belief
That's as silly as a kleptomaniac
Claiming not to be a thief
Existentialism
Seems appealing
Equate God's thoughts
It has no meaning
Thinking God's thoughts
After Him we are commanded
In chance and luck you'll be stuck
Leaving you intellectually stranded
So how do we account for counting?
Is it antecedent steps of doubt?
When we experience epistemological self-consciousness
We can ask "Who let the dogmas out?"

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Tom Woody

Date: 10/11/2024 7:55:00 AM

I've always thought the best definition for faith is found at Hebrews 11:1. True faith is not founded on credulity, but on evidence. And boy, did He leave abundant evidence of the intelligence and wonder found in creation. I enjoyed your poem

Tom Woody
Date: 10/12/2024 6:01:00 AM

Maybe I should have had you read down through verse three, then compare with Romans 1:18-20. Faith is based on solid evidence. True this evidence leads us to put faith in what cannot be seen. Jesus could have simply taught the people and declared himself savior of the world, but by means of miracles he left ample evidence that he was indeed the One, and that their faith was not based on words alone

Michael Ramel
Date: 10/11/2024 8:01:00 PM

Thanks for responding and enjoying my poem. Yes there is plenty of empirical evidences that pique our senses. And yes God has provided plenty of evidence for those instances (Romans 2:12-16). But we walk by faith not by sight (2 Cor. 5:7). Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. (Romans 10:17). I would say that faith is based on what we don't see, but is enhanced when the Holy Spirit empowers The Word and that power touches the receptive heart. The verse you quoted is the verse I will quote Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.