I just noticed that someone who answered one of my questions said that "faith is when you believe something that your brain tells you is incorrect". I've always believed that reason is a necessary part of my faith. I believe that without reasons to back up our faith, we risk being like the seed that grows and has no root in Jesus' parable. I also think that reason helps us explain our beliefs to other people and to convince them of the truth. What do you guys think? Are reason and faith compatable? Do we need to have reasons for what we believe? If not, then what kinds of things should we believe by faith alone?
2006-09-10 09:19:22 · 15 answers · asked by Jazmin 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Faith, for me, is believing something that my Reason tells me is correct. Faith without Reason is weak. Each person has the responsibility to reason through their beliefs as best they can, with what brain power God has given them.
Reason doesn't mean that you have complete proof, only that you take what you have and think logically with it. Some information may be to high for us to understand completely, but we can use Reason in order to figure out whether or not to trust the source of that information.
2006-09-10 09:22:48 · answer #1 · answered by Dysthymia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well for faith to truly BE faith, there has to be an element of doubt. What good is faith if it's on a sure thing? Faith becomes, when you have reason to think it might not work. We don't use faith for the sun to rise every day... it just does. The sun will set tonight, is that my faith speaking? No, because it's a sure thing.
So yes, there needs to be some reason why something might not happen for the faith you exorcise to be real. It might be a small reason or a big reason but it doesn't have to be a hopeless situation... just has to be a shadow of doubt.
2006-09-10 09:25:54 · answer #2 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not all the time. Faith stand alone because to believe and omnipresent being made the world and is invisible and had winged people help you and people parted the red sea doesn't sound believeable becuase it's not much that seperates the bible from a comic book of the x-men. Lol it's hard to bring in reason to faith. Because what really is too improvable to believe or what is too insignificant to believe. So you just have to believe or our head would just explode. LOL
2006-09-10 09:26:40 · answer #3 · answered by St.Christopher the militant. lol 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is distinct from hope in that faith is typically general, rather than specific to an aspect, and in contrast to a "false hope" in a fantasy, the object of faith typically transcends what can be proven scientifically and sometimes exceeds what can be objectively defined.
Faith can mean believing unconditionally. It can be acceptance of something that one has been told by one who is considered trustworthy. Faith, by its very nature, requires belief outside of known fact. Faith is formed through instinct, intuition, meditation, communing with nature, prayer, or perceived usefulness of a belief system.
Religious belief, and membership in a faith community are important factors in the lives of many individuals. For a certain individuals, religious beliefs become compulsive, joyless behaviors. Religious faith and religious education are not generally the causes of scrupulosity. Actually, scrupulosity is a form of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
1. Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing.
2. Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence. See Synonyms at belief.
I hope you learned something about faith. It has nothing to do with reason.
2006-09-10 09:31:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
faith is believing in something you have never seen. Example I have never been to London but I have faith it is there. Faith can always be backed-up with reason if you believe something that does not make since to you; you either don't understand or believe a false teaching.
2006-09-10 09:26:05 · answer #5 · answered by peewee5001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith and reason are definitely compatible. There will be some things though about our creator that are beyond our understanding and we must take it on faith alone. But it is because of what we KNOW about God's character that makes it possible to take these things on faith alone.
2006-09-10 09:24:26 · answer #6 · answered by jhvnmt 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you do need reasons to back up your faith or you will be like what jesus said and be lead by a blind man off the cliff. you have to have a reason or you are blindly following something that you cannot explain. We humans are flawed and it may seem strange to us what is perfectly clear to god. God says that your ways are not my ways. we have to have faith and in our faith we will find the reasons that we are searching for.
2006-09-10 09:47:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well isn't it obvious, you do not believe something if you think it's false.
And besides faith is also a supernatural infused virtue, a gift from God making you capable of believing things that are supernatural and by that means unreachable for reason, but never contrary to reason.
2006-09-10 09:22:33 · answer #8 · answered by carl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes reasoning and faith are compatible. Dont let others convince you because you cannot verbalize a rational for what you feel or what you believe that it isn't real. If i'm angry at something and others don't see it as somthing to be angry at that does not change that I am angry. Get it?
2006-09-10 09:27:46 · answer #9 · answered by nothingcreativecametomind 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is exactly what I have been trying to tell others on here...there is so much more to it than just faith...Yes...they go hand in hand..and we are to be ready to give an answer when someone asks us why we believe the way we do.
2006-09-10 09:23:20 · answer #10 · answered by Judah's voice 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋