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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.