2006-06-05 20:58:09 · 19 answers · asked by Realist 2006 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No.
To accept faith is to distribute the logic behind reason.
Reason is merely taking what lies before us and describing how it got there correct?
All we can know is what we know.
But what about what we cannot know?
If reason suggets that all things arrived from something. faith is accepting that you didn't put it there. Someone else did.
Using reason and faith, always that element of faith, we find hope and aspiration. Contentment.
Reason always leads to more questions.
Faith brings you to a solution.
2006-06-05 21:04:16 · answer #1 · answered by JimmieHendrix05 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No, because faith surpasses all understanding and "man's" reasoning. For just one example... "faith" can heal the sick.
How would reason, (or human logic), figure into that?
And that's, like I said... just one of many examples. With faith comes many unexplainable feats! Do a little research on your own, (get some books), and see for yourself how much more powerful faith is than reason would suggest.
Hey, anyone can reason, (takes no special talent), but how many people have the necessary courage to step out in faith?
2006-06-06 04:13:17 · answer #2 · answered by love_2b_curious 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The Bible actually calls "noble" those who question what it says to see "whether such things were so" so long as they do so "with all readiness of mind" and an earnesty to find whether they're truth and not just looking to support preconceived notions that it's wrong.
Acts 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Paul quoted from lesser known Greek poets and used philosophy and reasoning often when addressing pagans or the non-religious. The words used "opening and alleging" are legal terms used for the presenting of evidence.
Acts 17:3 Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
Jesus offered physical evidence to Thomas that he should not be "faithless, but believing."
As Josh McDowell in "More Than A Carpenter" (a book I highly recommend for skeptics) says, "Never has an individual been called upon to commit intellectual suicide in trusting Christ as Savior and Lord."
As I often like saying, truth doesn't need to hide from knowledge for by the objective comparing of knowledge will the truth shine forth.
2006-06-06 04:32:12 · answer #3 · answered by jzyehoshua1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that might depend on the meaning you intend to convey with the word "faith."
I see "faith" as "reason gone courageous." Thus, having exhausted all available evidence and reasons, in the real world, one takes a courageous leap, not to insult or evade reason, but to extend it to "where no one has gone before."
What I understand others to mean when they use the word "faith" is merely a sincere wish for something to be true. I believe they mean to abandon the real world.
2006-06-06 04:04:39 · answer #4 · answered by My Big Bear Ron 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not quite.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen... That is the rationale behind it.
It is still one's choice [freewill or gift of reason] to CHOOSE to have Faith or not. But once you DO ACCEPT Faith, then you must stay the course and persevere to the end...
Otherwise, it makes no sense to choose Faith, does it??
Peace be with you!
2006-06-06 04:28:55 · answer #5 · answered by Arf Bee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, accepting faith is not abandoning reason. Infact it is the begining of reason because you have finally decided to become closer to your creator in worship. You are finally telling him thankyou by your worship and you are fulfilling the very purpose for which he created you. So you are being reasonable afterall
2006-06-06 04:10:49 · answer #6 · answered by deborah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You abandon reason & logic but you get filled with the Gift of Credulity. ( That comes from the Holy Spirit!)
2006-06-06 04:05:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
faith is based not only on belief but on what you do with it. In every action, to bath, to toilet, to worship, there is a certain amount of knowledge needed. God gave you a mind to think for yourself, he gave you hands to work for yourself. God gave you choice. Choice is reason in action. Faith does not reject choice. God says your actions will determine whether you choose life or death. Your actions will determine your fate. There is no way to discredit the responsibility of your own choice by using a misgrounded definition of the word 'faith'. Faith was centered not only on what people believed as a base but as a result of what they did with it. Faith is not seperate from choice.
2006-06-06 04:06:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. God doesn't want you to become a puppet. Everything that God has done has reason and His existence has evidences but you have to be open to people's testimony to realize that. To have faith is to see beyond what the eyes can see.
2006-06-06 04:05:12 · answer #9 · answered by *♥£öVe§♥* 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, but after you accept faith(get Born-Again, Spiritman Recreated), you then can start understanding Spiritual Things and you learn to use your REASONING POWERS to reason out Spiritual matters!!!!!!!!
2006-06-06 04:48:52 · answer #10 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋