What do you think is the proper role that faith & reason have with ....?

Question

regards to a belief system in a deity or divine being?

Answer 1

People seem to assume that reason and faith are mutually exclusive, but is is ration to have faith in (I.E.: trust) something for actually no reason?

Call it a rationalization if you will, but you will find that most people have a logical reason for believing what they do.

Answer 2

I am influenced by Reformed Epistemology as introduced by Alvina Plantinga (Notre Dame) and Nicholas Wolterstorff (Yale). They use a Classical Foundationalist method but question its criterion of "basicality," making room to bump in theistic belief as natural as other ordinary claims such as "I have a headache" and "I see a tree" which are self-evident (and without evidence or drawn from inference). In this way, belief in God is properly basic, needing no support or evidence. However, it isn't fideism.

http://stairs.umd.edu/236/plantinga.html

Answer 3

They have to go hand and hand. If you have faith but have know that the reasoning is off somehow, then I wouldn't have faith in it. It all has to make sense. When I first came to the Lord, it was mostly on faith but in time things made sense and God did prove Himself to me. If not, I wouldn't have continued in my faith.

Answer 4

Reasoning can help one establish certain facts presently; but one should also realize that 'facts' may only go 'so far'; faith (trust) can go further than facts (as we see themat that moment).

Answer 5

start with reason and resist faith. That's my opinion. If you stop short with reason and resort to faith, you are ignoring some obvious truths that are available to you in the physical universe.

So exhaust reason and then build on it with faith if you feel you must.

Answer 6

Faith is so far removed from reason that the terms are mutually exclusive