2007-02-12 03:23:45 · 17 answers · asked by CHEESUS GROYST 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As Benjamin Franklin said "The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." should we just do that thing?
2007-02-12 03:25:06 · update #1
Halleluia unreason!
2007-02-12 03:29:19 · update #2
I don't think you need to do that any more. There are a lot of good answers that can be reasoned through, but ultimately you have to decide what you believe. Do you have faith in evolution or creation? They are both theories and they both have arguements, there is always a personal choice. For most of it we go into it eyes open.
2007-02-12 03:31:03 · answer #1 · answered by micheletmoore 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There's no need to shut our eyes to reason to "bask in the glory that is faith in the Lord". I'm a scientist and a Christian but I see no reason why my faith in the Lord isn't reasonable. Most of current science actually agrees with the bible and the few places where there apear to be discrepancies are normally quite hotly debated (e.g. evolution, geological timescale and certain popular cosmological theories). My view is that, given time, these theories will also gradually align with the bible.
2007-02-12 03:31:25 · answer #2 · answered by Sam G 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Au contraire:
We should all open our eyes to reason and bask in the glory that is faith in the Lord.
To look around at this earth is enough proof to me that there is a God. The complexity of something as simple as my pinky finger or the beauty of a sunset.
2007-02-12 03:29:46 · answer #3 · answered by Laura H 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do not presently recall seeing that statement; but I think I understand it. Logic/reason is a foundation (presently for myself) for faith. Faith sees things that the limited logic does not (or can not) see.
Where 'the line' between faith and logic is may vary with the individual and their 'growth' at that moment.
May you receive a large pleasant surprise today to God's glory!!!
2007-02-12 03:59:57 · answer #4 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bottom line is every believer believes on someone else's say so that some one, some where at some time had some revelation from some deity that won't testify that it ever happened in the first place. They can't offer a shred of proof so they make a spiritual virtue of guillibility.
2007-02-12 03:29:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pass
2007-02-12 03:26:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
As Martin Luther (the reformer, not the civil rights leader), said... "Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. "
2007-02-12 03:27:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well God gave us a brain to reason with and the free will to choose. I wouldn't want to waste those precious gifts.
2007-02-12 03:28:23 · answer #8 · answered by OrdiNance 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a way....yes. Faith cannot truly be explained to a non-believer without experiencing it for themselves.
2007-02-12 03:26:40 · answer #9 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Shuting eyes to reason is what led to:
Children's Crusade
Extermination of Native American tribes
Holocaust deniers
Nazi Germany
Witch hunts
McCarthyism
Jim Jones
David Koresh
9/11
No thanks.
2007-02-12 03:32:39 · answer #10 · answered by Scott M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋