Is the light of reason alone sufficient to know the mystery of God?

Answer 1

In coming to a knowledge of God by the light of reason alone man experiences many difficulties. Indeed, on his own he is unable to enter into the intimacy of the divine mystery. This is why he stands in need of being enlightened by God’s revelation, not only about those things that exceed his understanding, but also about those religious and moral truths which of themselves are not beyond the grasp of human reason, so that even in the present condition of the human race, they can be known by all with ease, with firm certainty and with no admixture of error.

Answer 2

Reason alone? No. The mystery of God as Paul refers to it is that the Gentiles also are included in the redemption plan. But accepting God is pure faith. That way man can not boast of his own goodness. We all want to think we're good people so the hardest step is realizing we're not...in Gods eyes.

2 Cor 2:14 - But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned

Answer 3

Those who lean unto there own understanding of scripture are leading others astray and blinded by their "pride!" But this has to occur for the Kingdom of God is coming to this earth and establish His way as the only way.

Pride is man's downfall. The End of the circle of man's self rule will be the beginning of Christ's Kingdom but that "pride" must be broken first!

Answer 4

Is the mild of reason on my own adequate to be attentive to the secret of Horus, Osiris, Mithra, Unicorns, Santa Claus, or the huge Spaghetti Monster? this question is absurd b/c it assumes there is this variety of factor as a "God" factor, which has no longer been confirmed. The notice "God" is merely a gap filler for human lack of understanding.

Answer 5

...what is the "light of reason"...? God is no mystery... read all about Him in The Book... start with the Book of John or rent the video at Blockbuster... great movie...it follows the Book of John almost word for word... God is like Alka Seltzer... "plop-plop, fizz-fizz" Oh what a releif He is...! God is like Campbells soup... He's Ummm, Umm good !!!

Answer 6

Whoa! Deja Vu...
I thought I answered this in your last question. Hmm...
No, the light of reason alone is not enough,
but it's a starting point and that's what matters.

Answer 7

Created in God's image and called to know and love him, the person who seeks God discovers certain ways of coming to know him.

These are also called proofs for the existence of God, not in the sense of proofs in the natural sciences, but rather in the sense of "converging and convincing arguments," which allow us to attain certainty about the truth.These "ways" of approaching God from creation have a twofold point of departure: the physical world and the human person.32

The world: starting from movement, becoming, contingency, and the world's order and beauty, one can come to a knowledge of God as the origin and the end of the universe.As St. Paul says of the Gentiles: For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made.7And St. Augustine issues this challenge: Question the beauty of the earth, question the beauty of the sea, question the beauty of the air distending and diffusing itself, question the beauty of the sky . . . question all these realities. All respond: "See, we are beautiful." Their beauty is a profession [confessio]. These beauties are subject to change. Who made them if not the Beautiful One [Pulcher] who is not subject to change?833 The human person: With his openness to truth and beauty, his sense of moral goodness, his freedom and the voice of his conscience, with his longings for the infinite and for happiness, man questions himself about God's existence. In all this he discerns signs of his spiritual soul. The soul, the "seed of eternity we bear in ourselves, irreducible to the merely material,"9 can have its origin only in God.

34 The world, and man, attest that they contain within themselves neither their first principle nor their final end, but rather that they participate in Being itself, which alone is without origin or end. Thus, in different ways, man can come to know that there exists a reality which is the first cause and final end of all things, a reality "that everyone calls 'God.'"1035 Man's faculties make him capable of coming to a knowledge of the existence of a personal God. But for man to be able to enter into real intimacy with him, God willed both to reveal himself to man and to give him the grace of being able to welcome this revelation in faith. The proofs of God's existence, however, can predispose one to faith and help one to see that faith is not opposed to reason.

Grace and peace!

Answer 8

No.
Sufficient to question the existence of god, maybe.

Answer 9

no