You used many words to tell me nothing.
That's on you.
And it's not unexpected that you would simply blow it all off without any evidence that you even read it, much less understood it (I could give your answer to any post whatever it said, even without reading it). I addressed that phenomenon a few hours ago on this thread to InChrist.
my presupposition is legitimate. It is not a faith based position neither is it based on personal experience.
Your experience is not evidence of a god, meaning that your presupposition that you are experiencing one is faith-based. The argument in support of that was in the text you couldn't understand. You haven't tried to rebut it, nor to support your own position except with unevidenced claims that have no persuasive power with those who require supporting evidence before believing, so why would my position change?
If there is compelling evidence to the contrary I'll be all ears.
And I've already addressed this, too. If you're not going to look at what is written to you, why respond? Why should I? You have no argument, you talk about having evidence but offer none, and you ignore what is written to you before repeating yourself.
Hebrews 11:1 NIV. "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." It’s terrible to see how people use and abuse this verse without bothering to understand the context. Please refrain from quoting it if you are too lazy to understand the correct meaning of it.
Actually, it seems like it is you that doesn't understand the scriptures.
Theists claim that this book is too difficult to understand in order to try to disqualify dissenting opinion from skeptics, but it's the skeptics who understand it and its flaws, not the believer, who reads it through a faith-based confirmation bias that filters out the internal contradictions, moral and intellectual failings of an allegedly perfect deity, failed prophecy, and errors of science and history. Why would anybody be interested in what people committed to seeing the Bible as the word of God see when they look? We already know what it will be, whatever the words actually mean.
A literate, educated person has no difficulty understanding anything written in a language he is fluent in. I would have trouble understanding Chaucer in the original English, and wouldn't understand technical language in a field I'm unfamiliar with, but other kinds of books, not so much. One simply never see this kind of argument with any other text - "you don't understand the words even if you think you do."
That definition of faith is very close to my own: unjustified belief. You seem to think it means something else, likely because you want it to mean something else. You are arguing that faith based beliefs can be evidence based, and citing a scripture that doesn't support you, then claiming others don't understand what it means. Like I said, this is evidence to me that YOU don't understand what the words mean.
You and I are engaged in part of a larger conversation going on between Christians and atheists since atheists got a voice, which happened in our lifetimes with the rise of the Internet and the respectability of atheism as a tenable alternative to theism. This kind of thing rarely happened in the past, where at one time, it could result in the death of the skeptic. In my lifetime, the church hasn't had that power, but when I was born, atheists were so marginalized and demonized that they couldn't adopt, coach, teach, or serve on juries for being morally unfit, and there was virtually no recourse for such people except to silently accept that only theists were entitled to an opinion without having to pay a penalty.
That's all changed much to the chagrin of the church and its apologists, who can now be challenged, and who are now expected to defend their claims knowing that they can't.
Each example of biblical faith in this chapter demonstrates trust, based on what that person knew about how God acted in the past and the reassurance that God would act in the same way now or in the future. That is evidence-based faith!!!!
None of that is evidence that their faith was evidence based or that their beliefs were correct.
