The trouble with Faith, is that it cannot coexist with reason.?

Question

What do you think? And explain your stand.

Answer 1

Reason lays a nice, orderly grid over the universe of our experience, but like any fishing net, it lets some things slip through. There are things we have no firsthand experience of, and we take on faith the stories other people tell about them. I've never been to China, but I trust the stories told by my sister, who has been. I don't have a degree in structural engineering, but I have enough faith in those who do that I enter high rise buildings without worry. I've studied enough science and philosophy to know that there's a whole lot we are completely clueless about, but I plunge ahead with my daily life. That's faith of a sort. If you want to capitalize "faith," let it be for those times when you know, deeply and fully, that there is no way to guarantee that you are making the right decision, that there is no way even to know what the right decision is, but rather than letting the uncertainty paralyze you, you act anyway, trusting your ability to survive, to cope, to make lemonade if life hands you lemons.

Those who are frightened by uncertainty cling for their lives to someone else's prepackaged faith. Faith (with caps) is trusting life. After all, it's only going to kill you once.

Answer 2

Faith is belief that is not based on proof. Reason is supported in two columns:

a-the mental powers concerned with forming conclusions, judgments, or inferences

b-a statement presented in justification from observed matter.

There is a wide space available for having reason and faith at the same time. THat happens because the Homo Sapiens has both concepts in the brain hemispheres.

If you have mankind, you have faith + reason.. is our quid, our essence. That is why you find scientists that belive in Gods, and church people that without having real proof as a witness do accept reason and factual data on any sibject.

God does not explain it all... science either.

You act on faith when you have not seen the topic in action, BUT you act on reason some times when you have observed what happens but sudenly that changes.

For example, old cars use to have a skull instead of a peed number, to indicate that if you went over 30 or 40 mph , you would dye.

Answer 3

Faith is trust. Intelligence has an element of doubt. They must coexist for either to proceed. The reason is that in order for the analytical process of intelligence to take place one must trust ones mistrust. It is necessary that neither the faith or the doubt ever eradicate its opposite. In a way total faith includes having faith in ones doubt. Likewise, in order for doubt to truly be influential in ones own mind, one has to have some faith in that doubt before the doubt can do the checking it does so that it can confirm or deny.

Answer 4

It does coexist with reason. Faith blossoms when the posited reasons for a belief appear to defy one's logic. In this context, unsupportable reasoning gives birth to faith; faith could not exist without reason.

Answer 5

I think 'untrue'; The Judgment is negative, the Will is positive. The Judgment operating with the wisdom of the Will and itself negative against negative forms faith of the positive, and all reason stands on the Will. The Judgment then rests. Reason is unable to operate in the total negation for non-being for non-being is needed for that which is to be, being. In other words, non-being is content for what is possible, and being is for what is known or experience and is in memory as existent. In fact reason and faith are almost synonym for each other, but reason in absence of empiricism is skeptical of the word 'faith' for its ambiguity and unfulfilled non-being.

Answer 6

They can co-exist. Reason is the basis for faith. Faith is accepting the authority of that which is not immediately discernable.

I can reason that, even though I cannot know gravity, or perceive it in a physical sense, it is having its affect. I am aware of the characteristics of gravity, and how it works. I can see that objects are not floating around defying gravity. I was not floating yesterday, I am not floating today. This is reason.

Based on this reasoning, I can have faith that gravity will continue having it's affects on me tomorrow.

Answer 7

It's not meant to. Faith is blind to reason, that's the point of it. To have faith is to turn your back on reason in favor of a better outcome. It's not like the lack of reason is what's wrong with faith, neither exists within the other. If you want to use a metaphor, they are like light and dark. It can't be dark in light or light in dark.

At least that's my opinion.

Answer 8

That is not faith's trouble, that is the trouble with reason.

Answer 9

Faith is a will-o-wisp while reason is the bedrock of thought.

Answer 10

the worse faith i encounter go to believe that you live to prepared
for the afterlife
how can we reason with people not to bomb themselves with a faith like this ?