There is a phenomena I've observed (not here, but recent discussions here have triggered the memory). It works like this, someone spouts a "word salad" and many people react with "Gee I didn't understand any of that, it must be BRILLIANT!"

A case in point; Hebrews 11:1
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

OK, lets break that apart ....
... faith is the substance ...
In my experience, things of substance have physical weight .... how much does any amount of faith weigh?? .....

..... of things hoped for .....
OK, it is the substance of things "hoped for" .... but do not necessarily exist?? ... so I guess that can make sense. Faith is the substance of things that don't exist even if you wish they did.

... evidence of things not seen .....
OK, well at that time, there were no devices to measure things like wind and atmospheric pressure that we can not see. .... but I suspect that's not what this faith is supposed to be evidence of .... I suspect faith is supposed to be evidence of ghosts and bogeymen that sumsuchitch .....

So did the guy writing this actually believe this trollup or was he crafting something that said nothing. So that later he and the early times equivalent of a liar's club could sit around drinking beer and laughing about???

Thoughts???