2006-11-21 17:46:24 · 16 answers · asked by Socratic Pig 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Let's say we all shave with WIlliam Occam's Razor. How does faith stand up to reason? TO me it seems logical that in order to have faith, you would have to give up on reason. Correct me if I am in error.
2006-11-21 18:07:19 · update #1
Yes I did. It was my intellect that kept me from faith. It was my faith that made me whole.
2006-11-21 17:56:49 · answer #1 · answered by Gary M 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In absence of any proof that science can disprove God, that nothing that is workable in scientific questioning, can't be His work, nor that my belief would prevent me from believing or practicing science, I would say I have not surrendered intellect, if you can prove to me how everything came to be, matter, universe, laws of physics, etc. I would gladly learn. Yet, in the end, how can you prove my faith is wrong, until I die I won't know, if you are right it won't matter. If I am right, it will, I have faith, without proof, that there is a God. What if anything he controls us or expects something from us is up to each person's own interpretation of faith. Thomas Paine argued "that which teaches man to be good, is good" and that God did not prove His existance because then it would not be "faith" or chosing to believe as an act of love, but rather worshipping in fear, and that makes sense to me. Behaving according to the "Golden Rule" and Ten Commandments (or equitable rules) seems a good way for an anti-social species like humans to get along in communities, because experiments to the contrary only turn savage.
2006-11-21 17:58:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who, oh great swine, are you to say whether the human intellect is better or worse than faith? You have but your own life experience ONLY to serve as a measuring rod...I tell you this, oh socratic one. Neither is right, neither is wrong. It just is. No judgement necessary.
2006-11-21 17:55:34 · answer #3 · answered by Pie's_Guy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I merged them in "Rational Spirituality" available on the Dhaxem website.
Only conveyed from the Source in February 2006, it is already a major force amongst the thinking people. One day, sooner than most would believe, it will replace the religions with the sheer weight of its logic.
2006-11-21 17:53:57 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think I have. I may have more to learn, so that I may fully understand all things.
I believe that a Higher Power has created "the all and the everything".
Our logical mind was also "god-given", and it should be used to make our own choices and to decide what is reasonable and what is not.
2006-11-21 17:59:36 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No my intellect leaves me no other option than to deny the existance of any type of spiritual entity, often I wish I had a belief in an afterlife but nothing I have seen or read lends any factual proof that there is one.
2006-11-21 17:57:56 · answer #6 · answered by silentbob_151 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Analyzing some of the responses I receive, I must vote in favor of the logical choice, they have sacrificed logic for faith.
2006-11-21 17:52:44 · answer #7 · answered by Illegals Are S*** 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Ideally, faith allows you to keep striving for the next plateau in your minds spiritual development. That 'plateau' is, by its very nature, unknown to you by experience so this is why faith is so important
2006-11-21 18:02:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, no. Not at all, liddle piggy! It really goes much deeper than intellect *or* faith. Some day we will meet and I'll tell you all about it!
Rock on!
2006-11-21 17:54:01 · answer #9 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I use science to help understand religion and religion to help understand science. To only see things from one side makes a person blind to the truth, a fool for life.
2006-11-21 17:52:03 · answer #10 · answered by Sean 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋