If religion were true , wouldn't it be based on facts instead of faith ? Faith wouldn't even be mentioned if

Question

it were true .

Answer 1

This is kind of an illogical way of looking something you obviously don't understand.
If religion were true, what would be the purpose of it? What is the purpose of life? If it is only to know what is true and what isn't, then perhaps religion would be based more on facts. However, if the purpose of life is to learn to gain and practice using faith (for whatever purpose), then religion would be based on faith. Your question/answer only would make sense if the purpose of life would be to just know truth, which no religion teaches.

Answer 2

What we hold today as facts may turn out to be false. There are not facts that are definite. (none) Everything you know is only because of what has already been and you have FAITH that it will remain the same. (perhaps there is a great probability that it will remain the same) But there is always a chance anything can happen. Faith is all we have.

Answer 3

Well, I'm getting tired of explaining this, but you're attempting to conflate logos with mythos.

It's not a good thing to do.

Religion and the rational method play different parts in our lives, and trying to make one conform to the strictures of the other is pointless.

Science tells us how far the stars are from the Earth, and how diseases operate; it improves the lot of humans in myriad practical ways.

But it is not competent to deal with those ultimate questions that humans seem, by our nature, to HAVE to ask again and again and again, in every culture and throughout time.

If you'd be opposed (as I am) to religious imagination being the structure in which scientific experimentation takes place (and such experimentation being limited by religious doctrine), then you see half of the problem.

The other half of the problem is in dismissing religion because it isn't subject to the kinds of proof that science is.

IMO, for a full and fulfilled life, we must be as rational as Aristotle, and still open to the wonder revealed by poetic religious imagination.

If your toolbox only contains a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And it's a poor toolbox that doesn't contain more appropriate tools for *different* purposes.

Answer 4

Faith has to be a part of religion since it is based on the existance of God Who is an unknowable essence. He is so far above anything we can conceive that faith is necessary to bridge the gap between what we can know (which is ver limited) and His existance.

Answer 5

Normally we claim something is "true" when it is provable and demonstrable. Only Theism makes it a virtue to believe without evidence. Religion is mere assertion. Faith is taking someone else's mere assertion as fact without proof or evidence. Of course I would say that if someone wants you to believe their lies without proof and can convince you that doing so means you are spiritual and special, it's a pretty good con if you can find enough stupid people to believe it.

Answer 6

There are alot of facts in the Bible tha archelogical digs of today and yesterday have proven. The faith is in God and that Jesus as his only begotten son died on the cross for our sins. Faith and facts go hand in hand in the Bible. Read to understand and you will find it.

Answer 7

Faith means believing without logic or evidence. That should tell you something about religion.

Answer 8

The christian religion does take into account fact & logic,but fact & logic have a limit whereas faith extens into eternity.Thats my story and i'm sticking to it.

Answer 9

First of all it takes faith to believe there is God and not facts. The wisdom of this world is folly unto God and also the word of God is folly to the wisdom of this world becase it goes against reason.
Faith is not based on facts. It is rather "the substance of things not seen, the evidence of things hoped for" therefore this rules out facts

Answer 10

Religion is founded on Faith. Either you believe or you do not.