Did Logic or Faith lead you to your religion?

Question

If you believe it is both, then which one came first?

Please explain how if possible...

Answer 1

If faith is a good method to know the existence of God, why is the same method not used in a court of law to determine who murdered someone? Before you send someone to die, isn’t it a good idea to make sure it’s the right person? Should you pick anybody off the street and ask them to prove they did not commit the murder, and if they don’t know what you are talking about, they are obviously guilty? Should the burden of proving you did not do the murder rest on you or on he who claims it was you and accuses you? If I start claiming that I feel God within myself, shouldn’t I show you some evidence? Or since you don’t know what I am talking about, you are obviously deaf, and have no eyes to see, no introspective ability, so you must be obviously illogical, and all I have to tell you is “Pray and have faith!.”

In the Middle Ages someone who couldn’t prove that the Devil DID NOT talk to him, was guilty anyway and had to be tortured and killed. We could still do that experiment and just pick anyone off the street and tell him or her that WE KNOW that Satan has possessed him/her. We KNOW, not by proof of evidence, but because the Blue Angel spoke to us. How about that method in a court of law? It would cost expensive lawyers, and it would save the taxpayers money.

Since when it comes to practical application faith is the same in every religion, why don’t all faithful join together in Iran and form the new country of the AlmightyAllahJehovaShivaVishnu Incorporated?

Answer 2

Not really sure. Even though I believe in evolutionary theory and the Big Bang theory, there's only so far back I can go with it before I hit a point of "But where did the energy and matter come from in the first place?"

Logic led me away from Christianity, because there were qustions that did not have suitable (or IMHO logical) answers. Faith led me away from atheism and agnosticism because I can't reconcile the existence of the universe on a purely scientific level - I believe there is a power beyond our ability to scientifically quantify that contributed to its creation.

It may be that some day the scientists come up with an answer, and I'll have to re-evaluate. But for now, some of the ideas they're floating (M-space and String Theory, for example) are just as fanciful as some of the cultural creation stories out there.

Answer 3

At first it was faith, sometimes supported by logic. Now it's the other way. What I believe is supported or proven by logic. Even what I hold in faith, would be untenable without logical support. Aristotle was a believer, so the two are not incompatible. He even gave us the proof of Absolute Truth, "It is impossible for a thing both to exist and not exist at the same time."
In 1905, Einstein took that a bit farther, developing the "relation" between Space/Time. Since he had a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, he was tutored by a Rabbi and a Priest, and was led to favor the "Judeo-Christian" ethos as source of the best morality.

Answer 4

Logic came first and then it led to faith. When I spoke to the Jehovah's Witnesses, what they said seemed reasonable. Then I had a Bible study with them and I became 99% sure. That wasn't enough and I wanted to be 100% one way or the other. The more and more I studied, the more and more sure I became, and I'm now 100% beyond a shadow of a doubt.

I'm 100% that there is a God, His name is Jehovah and He is the God of the Bible, that Jesus Christ was His only begotton son, and that the Jehovah's Witnesses are the only ones that are teaching the truth.

2 Peter 3:3-10
3 For YOU know this first, that in the last days there will come ridiculers with their ridicule, proceeding according to their own desires 4 and saying: “Where is this promised presence of his? Why, from the day our forefathers fell asleep [in death], all things are continuing exactly as from creation’s beginning.” 5 For, according to their wish, this fact escapes their notice, that there were heavens from of old and an earth standing compactly out of water and in the midst of water by the word of God; 6 and by those [means] the world of that time suffered destruction when it was deluged with water. 7 But by the same word the heavens and the earth that are now are stored up for fire and are being reserved to the day of judgment and of destruction of the ungodly men. 8 However, let this one fact not be escaping YOUR notice, beloved ones, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. 9 Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with YOU because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance. 10 Yet Jehovah’s day will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a hissing noise, but the elements being intensely hot will be dissolved, and earth and the works in it will be discovered.

Answer 5

It was an experience. I was antichristian, then something happened to me while I was out drinking. When I came back to consciousness, all I wanted to do was serve God. I know it sounds corny, but that is how it happened. I believe that I believed by faith, and then the logic of God was revealed to me afterward.

Answer 6

Both of them did. The logic came first.

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Answer 7

Both.

Logic first. I observed the world, thought about how it seemed "to me" that things work, and arrived at some deep spiritual conclusions regarding the nature of the divine and, well, nature.

Then came faith, when I discovered that there was actually a system of beliefs called Wicca that encompassed the conclusions I had arrived at on my own.

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Answer 8

Logic.

Answer 9

I was helpless and God loved me.

It's not a religion, however, as "religion" is man reaching to God. Christianity is better defined as a relationship, one of God first reaching down to man. Faith is necessary, and logic can follow, but love is what gets you on your knees. Just the fact that God saved me from what He did shows that He loves me so much, as He does you. I was helpless, and He helped me.

God bless.

Answer 10

I accepted the Bahá'í Faith by logic, and after I saw how it makes sense, then FAITH AND LOVE came into my heart.