Mr. Soso said that faith is the suspension of critical thinking!
This is a dumb and stupid statement! Faith is just the opposite. Faith is based on critical thinking! Let me explain myself.
Critical and crucial thinking is based on an accumulation of facts. These facts/truth supports your faith in God.
For example, Black Americans are not sovereign people in a country of our own yet. But, I have faith that it will happen based upon a few critical and crucial facts. The first fact is my first revelation that prophets are racially different. I got that revelation exclusively from God and is it true? Yes, it is absolutely true!
God revealed to me that our country will be from the northern borders North Carolina into the Gulf of Mexico and from the middle of the Mississippi River into the Atlantic Ocean.
Is this revelation feasible to believe and have faith in? Of course it is! This is why. God maneuvered me to North Carolina before anointing me. I need to be where our country will have its start. That is critical/crucial and analytical thinking especially when you consider that our country were the most hardened slave states where the blood of Black Americans still stain the soil. We will be where our ancestors were brought into existence and died in brutal ways. Should the plantation slavery of Black Americans go unanswered? No and No!
Do Black Americans need our own religion? Of course we do! God confirmed our religion named LIFE. Having our own religion makes Black Americans as equal in the eyes of God as the Jews and the Arabian people are. This is another factor of crucial and critical thinking to have faith in God that the things I say are going to happen for us. The things Moses said happened. Moses was a prophet!
So, my faith in God is not a suspension of critical thinking, but it is just the opposite because I have critical and crucial evidence to support my faith in God.
The African Soso is not a very intelligent person. You all may think that he is because he is more intelligent than you all are in dialoguing, but in the end he wants to deliver my Black American people to Maat/Egyptian thoughts and philosophy and we are not Egyptian people.
Critical and crucial thinking is based on an accumulation of facts. These facts/truth supports your faith in God.
For example, Black Americans are not sovereign people in a country of our own yet. But, I have faith that it will happen based upon a few critical and crucial facts. The first fact is my first revelation that prophets are racially different. I got that revelation exclusively from God and is it true? Yes, it is absolutely true!
God revealed to me that our country will be from the northern borders North Carolina into the Gulf of Mexico and from the middle of the Mississippi River into the Atlantic Ocean.
Is this revelation feasible to believe and have faith in? Of course it is! This is why. God maneuvered me to North Carolina before anointing me. I need to be where our country will have its start. That is critical/crucial and analytical thinking especially when you consider that our country were the most hardened slave states where the blood of Black Americans still stain the soil. We will be where our ancestors were brought into existence and died in brutal ways. Should the plantation slavery of Black Americans go unanswered? No and No!
Do Black Americans need our own religion? Of course we do! God confirmed our religion named LIFE. Having our own religion makes Black Americans as equal in the eyes of God as the Jews and the Arabian people are. This is another factor of crucial and critical thinking to have faith in God that the things I say are going to happen for us. The things Moses said happened. Moses was a prophet!
So, my faith in God is not a suspension of critical thinking, but it is just the opposite because I have critical and crucial evidence to support my faith in God.
The African Soso is not a very intelligent person. You all may think that he is because he is more intelligent than you all are in dialoguing, but in the end he wants to deliver my Black American people to Maat/Egyptian thoughts and philosophy and we are not Egyptian people.
@ Harry
Critical thinking would demonstrate keeping up with modern history and archeology.
Every single major archeologist responsible for "Black Kemet Dynastic" dating was Petrie & Kitchen.
Neither of them ever said that Abraham never existed because the Arabs historians in Iraq would have blown their spot up.
The so-called white archeologists are confused on dating and trust me the dates given for the Dynastic Pharoah's is not accurate by the so-called white man doing the research.
Here is one excerpt to validate my opinion too:
A New Twist
Kitchen explains it well why so many modern scholars date Abraham to the Isin-Larsa period. However, the search for the Mesopotamian background for Abraham does not stop there. In 1974, the archaeological world was rocked with the discovery of the archives of the ancient city of Ebla in Syria. The archives of the city dated back to before the days of the Akkadian Empire (see table 1). These texts reveal that Ebla was a thriving commercial city with contacts stretching in all directions for hundreds of miles. The discovery affected not only Near Eastern studies but also biblical studies. Shortly after this discovery David Noel Freedman argued that the discovery of the archives gave evidence for placing the patriarchs into the period of Mesopotamian history before Sargon, the founder of the Akkadian Empire. This would have been the period which Kitchen said was too early for the patriarchs. Freedman noted:
The true significance of the Ebla tablets for biblical history and our understanding of the patriarchal narratives [is revealed]. The Genesis 14 account of the punitive raid of the kings of the East upon a rebellious coalition of kings from the Cities of the Plain has long been a puzzling problem for scholars in reconstructing biblical history. The amazing correlation of the number, order, and names of the Cities of the Plain between the Ebla tablet and the biblical record indicates that the Genesis 14 narrative should be understood in the setting of the third millennium, not in the second or even first millennium as scholars have previously thought (Freedman 1978, p. 143).
Freedman stated that one of the tablets listed the five Cities of the Plain in the same order in which they were listed in Genesis. It even named one of the five kings in almost the same form as Genesis (Birsha). This allowed Freedman to say that the patriarchs lived in the Early Bronze Age (EBA) which is traditionally dated to the third millennium BC (Freedman 1978, pp. 148, 154–155, 157–158). Freedman went on to argue that the Early Bronze Age remains just east of the Dead Sea were where the five cities were located. It was believed that Bab edh-Dhra and four other sites nearby were the Cities of the Plain. This was backed up by the fact that there were no Middle Bronze Age sites in the area but only Early Bronze Age sites. Interestingly the Early Bronze Age was the same period as the Ebla archive (Freedman 1978, p. 152).
It is now accepted by most scholars that Freedman’s conclusions are false. The tablet does not list all five of the cities and concerning the name of Birsha, John Bimson notes that there are several examples of kings with the same name ruling centuries apart. So just because the name sounds like that of the king mentioned in Genesis 14 does not mean that it was him (Bimson 1980, pp. 66–67). Freedman himself even noted that the king named Birsha ruled not in Gomorrah but in Admah, contrary to what Genesis says (Freedman 1978, p. 155).
Bimson also argues against Freedman’s archaeological evidence. He notes that Freedman’s argument depends on the fact that no Middle Bronze I sites have been discovered so that Freedman must assume that the Early Bronze Age sites are the Cities of the Plain. Bimson says:
Unless the EBA settlements can be identified with certainty as the “cities of the plain” (which would require four of them being shown to have suffered a simultaneous fall in the EBA; Zoar was not destroyed according to [Genesis] 19), Freedman’s case remains weak (Bimson 1980, p. 67).
He also notes other problems with Freedman’s identification when he says that the central Negeb is pivotal to the patriarchal narratives and that there is almost a total absence of Early Bronze Age evidence in this region until the Middle Bronze I period (Bimson 1980, p. 67). Lastly, biblical chronology cannot be stretched back that far into the third millennium BC. Dating Abraham back before 2300 BC is simply too much of a strain on biblical chronology according to both Bimson (1980, p. 67) and Hoerth (1998, p. 73).
In summary, most scholars date Abraham to the Middle Bronze Age in which is the period of either Ur III or the Isin-Larsa period. It is clear that one piece of evidence as to why Abraham is dated to these periods is the nature of the Genesis 14 coalition of kings. However, it must be noted that the number one reason for this dating is the acceptance of the standard chronology of the Ancient Near East. Abraham is dated anywhere between c. 2100 and c. 1900 and this range of dates are then applied to the standard chronology of Mesopotamia.
However, there have been a number of scholars who have come out against the standard chronology in the recent past.6 There has been a concentrated effort to use this new research in ancient chronology to correlate biblical events with Egyptian chronology.
Two separate studies have dated Abraham to sometime during the Early Dynastic or the Old Kingdom periods in Egypt. John Ashton and David Down (2006) have dated him to the Fourth Dynasty while this author (McClellan 2011, p. 155) has given a range of dates from the 2nd–6th Dynasties.7 Placing Abraham in this earlier period in Egyptian history also forces Abraham to be dated significantly earlier in Mesopotamian history. (Ur III and Isin-Larsa correspond to the Middle Kingdom in Egypt, and that time aligns better with the Mosaic period than with Abraham’s.)
If Abraham is to be dated earlier in Mesopotamian history then in what period did Abraham live in Mesopotamia? What is interesting about the quote by Kitchen above is that he notes that there was another period in Mesopotamian history in which a coalition of kings could have existed; that is, the period before the Akkadian Empire. What is more interesting is that this is the time period that Freedman dated Abraham. So one has to ask whether or not this period could be the setting for Abraham’s life?