Evidenced Based Faith

I am currently into evidence based faith. All faith is based on evidence. Satan tells all religions and thus, all faith based believers that faith has no evidence. Only science has evidence. This is a Satanic lie. One of the biggest out there. If one believes in the Satan spawned definition of faith, your faith is really based on the tradition of the church you grew up in and the words of minister that you listen to. True faith starts with listening to the Word or reading the Word. If the Word is true and you desire to believe, you receive your first evidence from God. The Spirit testifies to you. The Word swells in your heart. If the word is false you will not receive any evidence of its validity from God. But, you may receive false evidences. You may be told of miracles (false) that collaborate your new found belief. True faith is always based on true principles, followed by witnesses from God.

After you have received the first evidence that what you have heard is true, one continues to believe. One believes in principles like “not easily provoked” and overcomes impatience and anger. One believes in “kindness and easiness to be entreated” and, through God’s grace, backbiting and gossiping disappear. And as you do this, you receive one wonder after another further evidencing or witnessing to your soul that God is pleased. He inspires you. He comforts you. He guides you. These evidences make your faith unshakable to the point that you truly believe you can do all things (Jacob 4:6, 1 Nephi 17:50).

Non-evidenced faith is stagnant. It doesn’t grow or grows very slowly. If signs, wonders and miracles are not occurring in our lives, something is wrong. If an atheist were to ask me to proof to him that there is a God, I would say, that I have received evidence after evidence that there is a God. In fact, all things proof that there is a God (DNA, the planets, the goodness of people, etc.).  I would then ask the atheist to show me his proofs that there isn’t any God. He would then turn it back on me and say, your spiritual evidences are false and they are just figments of my imagination. I would then say, that I know the wonders and miracles that have happened to me and testify that they are true. But, what about you? What are you evidences? And we would end. He would get all upset and start calling me names or just walk away.

Talking to an atheist with evidenced based testimony should be the easiest thing to do – not the most fearsome. Just recount all the evidences you have had in your life. If that doesn’t work bear your testimony (that God is real based on all the evidences you have received). If he asks for a sign, do what Alma did and make him dumb for the rest of his life (just kidding).

Evidence based faith makes sense to me. I hope it does to you as well.

Scott

Dense Food vs. Non-dense Food

After pondering what Doug Russell said about it being impossible to each too many vegetables I now think he is right.  It is too easy to eat high density foods filled with energy.  They come in small, compact units like meat, processed bars, milk, soda, oils, and juices.  If Doug is right one could eat as many herbs and fruits (see baring parts of the plant) and probably lose a lot of weight and maintain one’s weight.

The Lamanites ate meat and blood (high energy).  The Nephites ate grains.   The Lord said to eat meat sparingly.  This might mean that He meant that we eat all energy dense foods sparingly.  The Lord said to eat vegetables, fruits, herbs and grains.  These are non-energy dense foods.  Eat a lot of those.

We also would be contributing to the mass killing of animals by eating energy dense foods non-sparingly or we would be contributing to killing less animals by eating low energy dense foods in abundance.

What are your thoughts?