What is the difference between faith and reason?

Answer 1

Faith is what made you sit on your computer chair and trust that it will hold you.
Reason makes you stop, consider the physics of the design, the quality of the parts and ponder whether or not it will hold you.
Faith has become so second-nature regarding the physical, we do not give it that much reasoning.

Isaiah 1:18
“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD, “ Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool."

Answer 2

As far a i know faith without actual knowledge on the result is blind faith. U'll be hoping in vain for that particular outcome. But if u know that a result will be achieved by an action, then that is reasoning and u can then have the faith or confidence it is guaranteed.

Answer 3

In truth, there should not be a difference.
There is a difference only because the word 'faith' has beeen corrupted.
The churches of christendom have been teaching lies to its people, for centuries.
Whenever they can't talk themselves out of a lie, they say:
"Just believe, have faith."
So, people have come to think faith is accepting without knowing why.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
"Faith follows the thing heard. . ." says Romans 10:17.
Please note: Faith follows. It doesn't come first.
What does it follow?
"The thing heard."
Therefore one must hear, discuss, research, study, ponder BEFORE any faith starts growing.
You've got to know your subject, then faith will follow.

Answer 4

To me, faith is belief without proof. Reason can mean the capacity for logical, rational and analytic thought.

I find some interesting points in 'fideism', where reason has no real bearing on faith.

'For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe . . . For the foolishness of God is wiser than (the wisdom of) men. (1 Cor. 1:21, 25)'

In my humble view, reason is not operable without some level of faith. Any topic requiring some level of abstract thought requires faith in your ability to think.

Answer 5

Faith is to believe in something or someone. And there is a reason for everything.

Answer 6

I don't believe in "blind faith". When one begins to look at the real possiblity that the Bible is true. Then really study the claims made in it, reason shows that it definately could have happend the way the bible says.

Sure, some things are hard to believe. The resurrection of Jesus Christ for example. But notice, no one ever found his body. No one claimed that Jesus didn't die on the cross. No one (until now) ever thought that Jesus never existed.

There is much reasonable evidence. You just have to begin to really look.

Answer 7

One should be able to make their faith stronger by reasoning on the scriptures. When someone tells us something from the bible, we should check it out to make sure that what we are being told is truth. That's what I like about Jehovah's Witnesses all of their meetings are a learning experience.

Answer 8

i agree, faith and reason are not compatible. reason is based on drawing conclusions from known, tangible facts, and according to Hebrews 11:1 in the Bible, faith is ''being sure of what he hope for, and certain of what we do not see.''

Answer 9

Romans 4

18Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, "So shall your offspring be."[d] 19Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah's womb was also dead. 20Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, 21being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.

Hebrews 11:19
Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death.

Answer 10

Faith is believing in something you cannot see, nor actually prove in a physical sense, thus you have faith in your beliefs, (my opinion). As for reason, I guess I'm not sure what you mean.