So exactly which questions can be answered by religion that can't be answered by reason?

Question

Besides questions like how tall the Christian god is....

Sorry Jibba but aren't they using reasoning based on Biblical scriptures and other historical texts to figure that out.

Answer 1

Well, of course EVERY question in the world can be (and is) answered by religion.

The only problem is, most of the answers are nonsense.

Answer 2

I think there may be a misunderstanding in your context. Its not that any religion answers questions that reason can't, but more exactly that some people feel more comfortable with the answers religion gives them. You can answer any question however you want, but if it doesn't set your mind at ease, then no amount of support will ever convince you said answer is correct. Seriously this is an interesting question with many different subplots and ideas and I hope you have some follow ups, but the idea that religion has answers that reason doesn't is archaic. Some people just find more comfort with the answers religion gives them. Cheers.

Answer 3

Has anyone tried to consider that maybe...just maybe, reason & possibly even science, is the wisdom that God has given us as one way to try and understand the what & how some things were done.

While the Bible says that God made the earth in 6 days and then rested...but maybe a day to God is a million years to man, maybe 10 million years...who knows, and I think the more important question is, who cares?

If you spent more time listening to the message that the Bible is trying to tell you, then trying to look for reasons to pick it apart and prove it's not real, then you would have answered your own question to begin with...and probably a lot more.

Answer 4

Hey Sho-Nuff --

I didn't say answered by religion. I'm not the biggest fan of organized religion. I just said there are other faculties of knowledge besides reason.

Reason can't tell me what a human person is. It can't tell me what love and beauty are. It can't offer me a relationship to the Mystery in whose presence we constantly live. It can't offer an account of my experience of my own conscience. In all those cases, all it can offer is a reductionism which ultimately says nothing whatsoever.

When I love, that love gives me knowledge of other human beings which is rationally unanalyzable. When I long for fullness of life, and for consolation in the face of life's fragility and transience, that longing itself tells me something (inchoate, to be sure) about the universe I inhabit.

I'm not saying that these existential intuitions can be the basis for a dogmatism which oppresses and condemns. I have no interest in dogmatism, and I'm no fundamentalist. But I think that rationalism is an invalid truncation of the human person.

Answer 5

Which questions did you need answerd that you can't answer by reason?
I'm sure you must have at least a few...like:
How did the universe truly come to be?
Is there life after death?
What is your true purpose, or do you have one?
Why is the human heart so selfish?
There are so very many questions that can't be answered by logic and reason.
That question about how there can be stars older than the universe...that's a good one.

Answer 6

Salvation cannot be answered by human reason.
1 Cor 1:21 "For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe."

Answer 7

Why Scientists have measured the Universe to be around 14 Billion years old yet the Hubble telescope has found stars and globular clusters much older. How can stars be older than the Universe?

Answer 8

The first time I went to church to appease my sister they all held hands and prayed and I just joined in to keep the peace. Within seconds I started to get hot and sweaty and it felt like electricity flowing through me and eventually I had to let go because it was actually hurting me. I could not explain it rationally but I walked out for a cigarette thinking they have got something I haven't and that is a real power. It took me 3 years from that point to investigate this and finally I just let go and said here I am - have me. Nobody talked me into anything. I actually wanted to go to church and no one would invite me so I started on those 4am TV shows...then I just got the courage to go one day and never looked back..it felt like home. (I walked in more cynical than the average atheist on here I might add....lol)

Answer 9

Religion can answer any questions, it's one of the good thing about it. Just give a general answer like "God wants it like that", or "That's the mystery of the holy ghost". Then close your eyes and try to look inspired. Much easier than getting a PhD in Biology and studying DNA replication.

Ramen !

Answer 10

Evil Knievel was once asked why he did what he did. He answered, "There are three things people don't know: Where they came from, where they're going, and why they do the things they do."

Those are exactly the questions answered by Christ.