Faith and reason, what is the link? Please explain according to your religion. Any religion is welcome.?

Question

Any religion is welcome, without question mark, of course.

Answer 1

Reason is a source through which you realise Faith.
Gnan and Brahma gnan - realising the omnipresent lord by reasoning is adhering to the reasoning path. Many Yogis have succeeded in achieving Brahma gnana. To cite more recent yogis we can name Ramakrishna Parama Hansa and Ramana Maharishi.

For the common man, a samsari involved in the vagaries of the worldly affairs, the reasoning path may not be possible. For them Bhakthi Yoga is suitable. That is to have unshakable faith, and surrendering oneself to the lord. Lord in his turn embraces him with love He is immensely pleased to be in the association of his bhakthas who love him.

It can be told that faith and reasoning are two different paths leading to god realisation.

Answer 2

Christians believe that God ask first for a person's heart. Most of the time a person's rejection of God is based NOT on an intellectual issue with God, but on an emotional issue. They can not understand in their heart -- not their head -- why God did or didn't do something.

Once he has the heart, the head comes along for free. Once the heart believes, the head is easily convinced.

Faith colors reason in every person, whether a Christian, an atheist, or anothing else. If you are convinced that your mother hates you, for example, you can find a way to interpret every "fact" and every arguement to support that belief. Anything she says or does can be "twisted" to be an expression of that hatred. If you are convinced that she loves you, the same actions will be "twisted" to prove that love. People see with their hearts, not their eyes.

So when Christians say that their relationship with God is based on "faith", they are actually basing it on something that can be a higher reality then "reason".

Answer 3

Hi, this is how I see it.

I went through several religions, because I was curious to know more than what my father was telling me, therefore, I was thinking, using my brain - this is reason.

After going to different churches, reading different books, I made my decision on what made sense to me, to my concept of what a religion should be, and to what I understand from myself and others, therefore I was feeling it, I was using my senses - this is intuition.

My religion is Spiritism, based on the books of Allan Kardec. He was a french doctor that died on 1869. He was skeptic (as many doctors), until he experienced contact with dead people. He wrote several books explaining what happens in the after-life and the purpose of our existence. His teachings were good to me, changed me morally, gave me some sort of peace, some sort of security, and I decided to live under those rules, therefore I believed in them, I was using my trust - this is Faith.

Yes, reason, intuition and faith walk together. When things seem reasonable, you feel good about them and have faith (you trust). Faith is nothing but trust in what you think and feel as right.

Peace!

Answer 4

In Gnosticism, faith and reason are one in the same. I have faith in reason and reason in faith. Without these two one is confused. Jesus reasoned with people through His parables, which inspired them to have faith. For more reason in faith look up the "Gnostic World View" on the wesite below.

Answer 5

the link is in faith itself...
Hebrews 11:1: "Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld"

2 Timothy 4: 1-5: "I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is destined to judge the living and the dead, and by his manifestation and his kingdom, 2 preach the word, be at it urgently in favorable season, in troublesome season, reprove, reprimand, exhort, with all long-suffering and [art of] teaching. 3 For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. 5 You, though, keep your senses in all things, suffer evil, do [the] work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry."

To have faith, you must use reason, it must be based on facts.

1 John 5:20: "But we know that the Son of God has come, and he has given us intellectual capacity that we may gain the knowledge of the true one. And we are in union with the true one, by means of his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and life everlasting."

We must use reason so that we are not mislead by every wind of teaching!

1 John 4:1; "Beloved ones, do not believe every inspired expression, but test the inspired expressions to see whether they originate with God, because many false prophets have gone forth into the world."

Answer 6

As per hinduism we have both the ways to experience the Supreme

Faith alone without reason is Bhakti Yoga

And Reason alone is Gyan Yoga, where we reason the existence and say Neti-Neti (not this-not this)...and finally reach the supreme

Faith and reason may look like opposite to each other...but they help each other in finding the Truth

And when we reach TRUTH both faith and reason vanish... what remains is total Bliss !!

Answer 7

Reason frees our minds, faith enslaves our minds. Only an enslaved mind would let their body be enslaved.
A free mind would rather die than become enslaved, thus creates the danger the free mind is to religion and group think.

Answer 8

The reason of man falls when sin enters. Then the reason is used to justify sin. Faith in God saves a person from their sin. Their reason falls in line with his will and they use it the way that God intended it to be used.

There are believers in God who continue to use their fallen reason to justify their sin but they're are the blind leading the blind.

Answer 9

"Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth..."

Relationship between faith and reason in Catholicism:
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_15101998_fides-et-ratio_en.html

Answer 10

Faith is the absence of reason.