Gullibility? What do you mean?
When you date someone, you are getting to know that person. You are putting trust/faith that what he says about himself is true. When you get to know each other, your guard drops more and after that first hump of trust you start to see his view as truth or fact. Then, when he cheats or lies your faith is crushed.
It does not mean you are guillible. You had justification for your trust because of your relationship experience. Just it went badly. Guillibility isnt a bad word.
A lot of people who start to trust others will be guillible to an extent. Its part of the process of trust. Take down the ego and walk literaly blind towards the light. (Hence blind and now I see rather than experience and now I see)
I dont know what your question is asking, but my question is in Hebrews it says faith is believing in things unseen is true.....
If you need to experience your boyfriend's love before you know its true or fact, thats not faith. If you need to experience godly things to know gods love is fact, thats not faith.
In order for it to be a fact, you have to jump the ship or cliff, bring down your need for evidence, and accept whats given. Then base your experienecs on that.
My question is, in Hebrews it says faith is believing in things not seen are true. If you need (or do you need?) evidence/experience to have faith, isnt that a contradiction in the nature of faith as defined by the bible?
I think you used two good examples I can work with - a relationship, and jumping.
I'll start with jumping.
There is a saying, "Look before you leap."
Why look, why not just jump?
Say someone told you to jump, would you, if you didn't have a measure of faith, or trust in the person?
In order to have faith or trust, would you not need a reason?
Would anyone in their right mind meet someone today 8:00pm, and marry them today 9:00pm?
Does anyone in their right mind close their eyes, and jump both feet into something they know nothing about?
To me...
a person who is in a relationship with someone, trusts, or has a measure of faith in that person, only after getting to know something about, or having a reason to trust that person.
The evidence is what they know - their reason for trust.
A person who trusts, or has faith in a person. despite having no reason to, or knowledge of, is simply gullible imo.
It's like a person closing their eyes, and saying, "I trust, no matter what."
Like jumping without looking, with your eyes closed, and perhaps hoping that by some coincidence, there is a stretched out tarp below.
So what is the evidence for an invisible God, you ask.
Roman 1:19, 20
This is what I tried to explain to you a number of times, but it seems you aren't getting it.
I'll post the example I referred you to, again.
When I look at a painting, I can come to what I think are both reasonable and logical conclusions... as well as sensible.
Example:
Consider Workbook A.
What are the possible conclusions I can arrive at?
For me, I could either conclude that someone, or something caused these effects, either with purpose, or without purpose - random, if you will, and without deliberation.
Consider Workbook B
What are the possible conclusions I can arrive at?
For me, I could either conclude that someone, or something caused these effects, but with purpose, and deliberately. As far as I know, for something to be done deliberately, and with purpose, requires forethought, and this can only be done with a mind - intelligence.
I don't know of any other possible way. Do you?
Perhaps the simplest of things man makes, is a house. What accounts for the more complex things? Hebrews 3:4
The way our body functions, gives evidence of purposeful design.
