Can logic be applied to faith ?

Question

what about all the medicine in your bathroom....clean drinking water...safety...etc.

Answer 1

Haha! Nice one

Answer 2

Both logic and faith have limits, and since faith operates on different principles than logic, they cannot be used to support or disprove each other. As for the medicines, water, safety, etc., you takes your chances! You look for the preponderance of evidence as to the safety of a substance or undertaking and then you make a decision. Are you trying to apply Pascal's Wager to canned dog food or something? No one ever knows 100% that their drinking water is safe; however, the chances are better in areas of higher general technological infrastructure than they are in the jungle. So if you're from New York City and you're using NYC standards to judge the safety of drinking from a river in rural West Africa, well...

Answer 3

not only can it be applied; but, is absolutely essential to understanding the scriptures...example....

If Christ were not "God in the flesh" He would be a liar and a false God why? Isa 42:8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Logic is used to see how scripture never conflicts scripture; but, clarifies it. The bible is such a large volume for good reason, translational errors may lead you awry in a smaller work; but having volumes that say the same thing in a different syntax helps understanding and is God's providential way of insuring that His word survives with His initial meaning preserved.

I don't rely on medicines to make me well I rely upon God to make the medicines work. I have to be very careful what over the counter remedies I use because i'm frequently drug tested due to my occupation. so most of the time I'm relying on the Good lord to make a couple of aspirin work.....it works the same way for the rest of the things you mentioned....if I have clean water at hand to drink why would I want to drink the dirty..unless I'm just testing God, which is a big no no:

Luk 4:12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
The original Greek word translated as "tempt" here means:
to test thoroughly: - tempt.

Safety is the same way if I have a safety device I ought to use it and rely (faith is reliance on God) on God to keep me from needing it or testing the boundaries of the devices capabilities.

EDIT:
Here's a good example of how it works...
When peanut butter was recalled some time ago i discovered that we had some of the 2111 product code that had been recalled. Was I worried that we would get sick because we had eaten most of it? NO. I did throw the jar away though, because after I knew it might be contaminated, it would be like testing God to keep eating it.

Answer 4

I really can't deal with questions that don't make sense.

If you ask only "Can logic be applied to faith?", I can understand that, and I'd have to say absolutely YES.

I really don't know what you mean by the rest. Can logic be applied to medicine? That's how we get them. Clean drinking water is engineered from ground, river and well-water. Engineering is logic.

Safety in what? Rock climbing? Seat belts? Computer keyboards? Toys? Perhaps sex?

I really don't know what you're looking for in the question details.

Answer 5

Of course. Logic is the application of the rules and principles of truth. Faith is based on truth, and on being true; otherwise it is a false faith. For example, the faith that there might be an infection occuring without proper medical treatment is a true faith. Faith in a religion is logical, if the religion is true. The Holy Bible says:
James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Notice that it did not say that the only true religion is Christianity or Judiaism, that it because most religions are not true faiths.

For example: Christianity should be a person's life, not just their religion. If it is merely their religion, then it is a false religion, and they will most certainly go to hell, for a religion cannot save you from hell by itself. (To be a real Christian, one must receive the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ into their life as their personal God and Redeemer).

Answer 6

logic and faith are always applied together. we live by faith all day, everyday, and we use logic along with it every day, all day. A very poor example would be, it takes faith to leave your house and walk down the street(assuming you wont be shot). Its also logical because no one has been shot on your street. If you live on a street where someone has been shot it takes more faith and less logic. one reason i started believing the bible was lots of logic, not a lot of faith at the beginning. It answered so many questions i had(logic)

Answer 7

Logic is the basis for faith... can't put faith in something when you have a lot of logical disconnects unless you're a complete idiot, which some people are...

God said, "Come, let us reason together."

Paul used logic all the time in many of his confrontations with Jewish leaders and Gentiles.

If logic is separate from faith, how can we know anything? If we can't "believe" something exists or happens based on logic and knowledge, how can we function as individuals?

Answer 8

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. Therefore, logic has nothing to do with true faith. Logic connotates that there is a presumption that the obvious will happen. Faith says that I don't care which way it occurs, God will do it. That means that it may not come thru conventional means. God is God and He does what and how He pleases to His good pleasure. May God Bless U.

Answer 9

I am Catholic, and I believe deeply that you can understand the truths of Christianity and Catholicism by using logic, and also doing a little research.

I don't understand what you mean by medicine, water and safety though. Logic can be applied to them all.

Answer 10

Yes. Apologist do not want logic applied to faith because faith is then discredited. But it can be done. And what you are left with is logic only.

The old adage "logic cannot be applied to faith" is used solely to justify ridiculous stories in the Bible, that even without any scientific evidence, on the surface are absurd and untrue.

Answer 11

>Can logic be applied to faith ?

Well, sort of. Faith is inherently illogical.

>what about all the medicine in your bathroom....clean drinking water...safety...etc.

I don't know what you mean here.