{"id":139,"date":"2009-05-25T02:59:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T07:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/?p=139"},"modified":"2016-01-18T22:44:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T03:44:42","slug":"an-atheist-has-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/25\/an-atheist-has-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"An Atheist has Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">An Atheist has enough faith to believe his or hers own philosophy without the assurance of absolute knowledge and truth. Atheism is as much a religion as any other worldview.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">An Atheist can\u00a0exercise\u00a0faith in all kinds of things that are beyond his understanding and control such as the weather forecasts,newspapers,\u00a0car brakes,history books,medical journals, and elevators. Yet elevators can let us down, history books can be wrong, and planes can crash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">The Atheist may seem to be making a case based strictly on \u00a0intellectual objections yet this may only be a veneer which is merely hiding a moral obligation \u00a0to God and his rule and reign over his or hers own life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/\">How to know God<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/18\/atheist-and-agnostic-resources\/\">Atheist and Agnostic Resources<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/category\/atheist-and-agnostic\/english-atheist-and-agnostic\/\">English Articles on Atheism and Agnosticism<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Copyright\u00a0permission\u00a0by Bridge-Logos &#8220;The School of Biblical Evangelism&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief statement regarding the concept of faith as is applies to atheists.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-atheist-and-agnostic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}