is knowledge the enemy of faith?

Answer 1

What time will the sun rise tomorrow? (you can find out)
Do you have faith in the book or person that announces the time?how can you know it will rise at all?
how can billions of stars follow their own orbit and clusters of galaxies also follow an orbit together.What moves them?
how can a non-living blob suddenly appear from nowhere and the for no reason explode?

Answer 2

Knowledge is not an enemy, rather a savior. Although it is important for people to have faith, not in religion or a Lord, but in everyday life and in themselves, it is also necessary to have knowledge. When you come to the realization that knowledge is power, you can decide whether or not you prefer to have faith, or wisdom. The definition of knowledge is the fact or state of knowing; the perception of fact or truth; clear and certain mental apprehension. Which means, when a person reaches this state of certain mental apprehension, if they lose faith, it is not because they no longer believe, it is because they are too knowledgeable to accept the false truths that religion wants us to accept as a way of life.

Answer 3

Well to cite Martin Luther - Where knowledge advances, faith flees.

I personally do not see a conflict between knowledge and morality, but that is not the same as between science and fundamentalist religion.

Tell moaseh above thank you for the awesome quote. If more people knew it and followed the Golden Rule it would be a happier world.

Answer 4

For me they are complementry ends of the same spectrum and they deliniate our lives like bookends.

Even before there was any knowledge of God, there was faith, the seed of faith that He placed in the heart on every person.

When we come to the fullness of our knowledge of God, we will no longer need faith, faith will no longer have a purpose.

Until that time, those who profess a faith in the risen Christ can rest in the knoweldge that we can only please Him by faith. Those who have not yet placed their faith in Christ must do so in order to know Him.


2Co 5:6-7
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) (KJV)


1Co 13:11-13
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. (KJV)

Answer 5

there are times when they conflict... like when knowledge is used to say that faith has no proof in whatever a person believes. but to the person who against that knowledge believes anyway and then has the proof, that knowledge against faith is ignored. - romans 4:16-21

and other times when they work together to get the best results.
like when someone is sick they go to a doctor to be examined. that knowledge is then used to know what and how to pray concerning health.

its the same in social, financial, & other areas.

Answer 6

Knowledge is the enemy of blind faith. Understanding is the enemy of thoughtless action. Taste is the enemy of pop culture. Wow, I could do this all day.

Answer 7

Man's knowledge is incomplete ask any genius and he will agree....true knowledge comes from God who knows all...so true knowledge is a friend of faith and an eventuality of faith.

Answer 8

It's the opposite of faith. I wouldn't say it's the "enemy" of faith though.

Answer 9

I don't know if that's the best way to put it, but I can relate to what you're saying.

But, there is a part of my life wherein I've experienced what I would call a "willful ignorance" on the part of some fundamentalist Christians.

My wife and I - like 30 million other Americans - enjoy social nude recreation.

It is not in any way sexual or erotic, but for people who don't understand that, it's hard for me to explain it to them. Basically, nude does not equal lewd.

But I've experienced vehement, aggressive fundamentalist "Christians" who will just get right up in your face with insults, trying to incite you to strike out at them, so they can then feel like a martyr.

What's up with that?

Basically, the problem is on THEIR side of the line.
They cannot get their small minds around the fact that people could be - God forbid - nude, without it involving sexual thoughts.

Well...sucks to be them, then.

But the fact remains that these fundamentalists would apparently just prefer to remain ignorant of our feelings or explanations of why we do what we do.

They don't want to hear it.

They've got their own little "Jesus version" of "la-la-la-la-la...I can't hear you."

That, to me, is willful ignorance.

Answer 10

knowledge keeps faith alive. people think that if you're atheist you're into logic, if you're a theist, then you follow faith. but faaith without knowledge or a foundation is blind faith.

seek out the answers you want. it's because we're told to just rely on pure faith we have trouble answering atheists at their level.

i wanted to be sure before i became devoted to God and so i sought out my answers, made sense out of it and it keeps me secure.