God believers, Is your faith in God a mental block that blocks out any threatening logic?

Question

Faith is useless because it's just a mental block that blocks out any threatening logic

Answer 1

For one example, Read St. Thomas whose use of logic and reason would put you to shame.

Read "Case for Creator" which is factual and logical.

I'm sorry to say but there are a lot of young kids and spiritually young people on this site and you are stereo-typing. Look at the intellectual side which is highly well thought out.

Answer 2

Do you breathe air? How do you know air even exists?

Was George Washington really the first president of America?

Is the earth flat or round?

How do you know these things? You have faith.

Faith that scientists have it right about the whole nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere needed to sustain life.

Faith that historians didn't have some hidden agenda or affiliation to cause them to cover up our past.

Faith that astronomers actually know how to use telescopes from space, or know how the earth rotates around the sun, or that they have some sort of grasp on gravity(which it's laws have never been fully discovered and factualized).

Faith that X+Y=Z.

Faith that Everybody Loves Raymond.

Faith that you won't die eating a salad with ranch dressing(which contains more MSG than anything you would ever eat at an authentic Chinese food restaurant...go ahead and check your fridge now).

Faith that God created us to be with him(Genesis 1-2).
Faith that our sins separated us from him(Genesis 3).
Faith that sins cannot be removed by good deeds(Genesis 4 - Malachi 4).
Faith that Jesus died and rose again, thus paying the price for sin(Matthew - Luke)
Faith that everyone who trust in him alone has eternal life(John - Jude)
Faith that eternal life means we'll be with Jesus forever(Revelation 22:5)

And that is the Gospel of the Bible.

Answer 3

No. I've pondered the evidence "for" and "against" God quite extensively...you just can't make something REAL go away. Even believers have trouble believing sometimes...but it's hard to deny something so "in your face" real when you've accepted Christ. A person should be well informed when making a decision about what they believe. However, faith does require taking the "leap" and until a person does, they might be blocked from experiencing the REAL THING. Are you struggling with what you want to believe? Or are you one of those angry atheists here to tell the rest of us that we are incompetent in our decisions? There is certainly more evidence for God than evolution...if you'll look for it. Sometimes it's hard to see without God on your side though...there IS something standing in your way until you choose to ask for help from the Big Guy.

Answer 4

Considering the way you answered your own question, it sounds like you are suffering from a considerable blockage of your own.

It probably wouldn't matter to you, but if you look into the actual study of "logic" (and I am speaking of logic as an actual academic field, and not just an empty interpretation), you'll find that the some of the most renowned logicians were the medieval Christian philosophers. For those capable of true Faith, Logic and intellect are foundations for faith, not threats to it.

Answer 5

Wrong. Without God there is no basis for logic. In an atheistic paradigm logic would be merely a social construct or a delusion. Without God to institute laws of the thought and nature, and to reveal that logic is applicable to the whole of reality, an individual would have no ground to be assured that logic has anything to do with the world at all. A Godless world is an irrational one.

Answer 6

If a person has been presented with good evidence for Christian truth, there may or may not be a conversion to Christianity. There is usually a struggle on a volitional level or on an emotional level. C. S. Lewis writes:


He is deliberately trying not to know whether Christianity is true or false, because he foresees endless trouble if it should turn out to be true. He is like the man who deliberately `forgets' to look at the notice board because, if he did, he might find his name down for some unpleasant duty. He is like the man who won't look at his bank account because he's afraid of what he might find there. He is like the man who won't go to the doctor when he first feels a mysterious pain, because he is afraid of what the doctor may tell him.
The man who remains an unbeliever for such reasons is not in a state of honest error. He is in a state of dishonest error, and that dishonesty will spread through all his thoughts and actions: a certain shiftiness, a vague worry in the background, a blunting of his whole mental edge, will result. He has lost his intellectual virginity.1

Christian believers are not immune to doubts, even when they have had exposure to Christian evidences, for similar reasons. In fact, there are powers of darkness that cause unbelief. These are real spiritual forces controlled by Satan. There are demons of unbelief, doubt, skepticism, and incredulity, just as there are demons of pride, greed, lust, envy, and hatred. These spiritual forces are especially effective during times of weakeners or temptation. C. S. Lewis writes:


There will come a moment when there is bad news, or he is in trouble, or is living among a lot of other people who do not believe it, and all at once his emotions will rise up and carry out a sort of blitz on his belief. Or else there will come a moment when he wants a woman, or wants to tell a lie, or feels very pleased with himself, or sees a chance of making a little money in some way that is not perfectly fair: some moment, in fact, at which it would be very convenient if Christianity were not true. And once again his wishes and desires will carry out a blitz.2
As Christians, we must "fly by the instruments," recognizing at such moments that, whether or not we happen to be in the right mood to be believers, the Christian faith is nevertheless completely true, and we will be held accountable for our actions, particularly in the light of our knowledge of the truth.

Answer 7

Fiddle faddle! You don't have faith and therefore you ascribe faith to be useless; well, I am sorry to disappoint you but faith does exist, the lowest level being the faith that we have in another person.

Do you not even have faith in or trust another person? Sad, if that's the case.

Logic and faith are not mutually exclusive but then you wouldn't know as you rely solely on yourself, perhaps on others and on logic.

I'm a logical person and yet, by GOD's grace, I am able to have faith in Him. This isn't a prop to avoid living and thinking for myself but it is a source of strength to live fully as He wants all of us to do.

I hope you will someday see the light...

Answer 8

Organized Religion is just another hold over from the previous stage of cultural evolution. Eventually (and we can only hoper), people will be able to think for themselves and be able to question everything and not accept things they do not know about or understand as "god's work". Blind faith is detremental to all logic.

Answer 9

Non believer-is your lack of logic a mental block that keeps you from believing in God and asking logical, respectful questions in this forum?

Answer 10

ok, how could you ever prove that god exists? there is nothing factual or even remotely scientific that says god is real. no, i dont believe faith is useless, it comforts billions worldwide and anything that makes people feel good is not useless. but yes, it does have a tendency to block out all logic that contradicts your ideas.