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Thursday, Feb 26, 2009. Is faith a risk? What type of risk is it? What can we loose? What do we gain? I am interested in some kind of neutral analysis. But perhaps it is not possible to be neutral about this - it might be impossible because without faith you do not really know what it is about, and with faith you see so many things in a different way that faith seems more a phase transition, like ice melting or a liquid going into a solid state that any other type of change. But anyway, let us try to collect some arguments!

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Let us start with some important standard question. Some people believe since they hope for God's help. Others reject faith since they did not experience God's help in some things they prayed for. So is there any type of rule that people with faith are better off because God helps them more? After studying the bible (and many other books about the Christian and other faiths) extensively, after many years as a believer in Jesus and someone with a big backpack of experiences I am not clear whether I can completely answer the question. There are biblical arguments as well as observations and personal experiences which support both a Yes and a No.

First: You will

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observe that in general Christian's have a better life just because they are Christians in the sense that they gain more money, have more success or less illnesses. You will find all kinds of problems in the Christian community. You will find all types of illnesses among dedicated believers. The apostles say that God “causes the sun to shine on both evil and good people, and sends rain to both just and unjust people” (Matthew 5, 45). God has a deep sense of fairness and independence. He is not biased towards his people, but loves every human deeply! So to believe just to get more or less “rain” is a misapprehension of what faith is about. There is much more about Jesus than just another old-boys-network which helps us to satisfy our needs or greed! ... more texts

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