They are the same thing?
They are both ways of acquiring truth?
Faith supplements human's limited reasoning?
Reason is dependant upon faith?
Reason is the method of attaining knowledge, faith is essentially worthless?
2007-04-30 04:35:38 · 13 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You do not have to choose from the list. Just throwing ideas that I've heard.
2007-04-30 04:36:12 · update #1
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The human search for truth can succeed only through faith in Jesus Christ, who is truth, Pope Benedict XVI said. "Faith in Christ grants the true knowledge which the ancient philosophers had sought through the use of reason," the pope said April 18 at his weekly general audience. Continuing his audience talks about the early church fathers and theologians, Pope Benedict focused his remarks on St. Clement of Alexandria, who was born in the middle of the second century. The theologian's writings, the pope said, outline how a believing Christian can and should use both faith and reason to "reach an intimate knowledge of the truth, which is Jesus Christ, the word of God." Pope Benedict said, "Only this knowledge of the person, who is truth, is true gnosis, the Greek word for knowledge or intelligence." The joining of faith and reason, he said, "leads to true philosophy, that is, the real understanding of the path to take in one's life."
2007-04-30 04:54:02 · answer #1 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Faith= Believing in something that can not be seen, but is true.
Reason=Methodical thinking that leads to the support of ideas.
Out of your list I'd have to pick the 3rd one. We can only see so much on earth... Faith comes first and over time our eyes are opened and all reasoning and fact evetually replace our faith.
Have a great day! :)
2007-04-30 04:54:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is totaly different from reason. To have faith is to believe and have hope in things unseen. You can look at the past and reason that you have good reason to believe something but faith is a hope of the future.
2007-04-30 04:44:34 · answer #3 · answered by Connie D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith < reason.
Faith is believing something with no logical reason, usually just because you want it to be true.
Reason is the knowledge that faith is ridiculous.
2007-04-30 04:39:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, believing something without reason is Faith according to biblical point of view.
I would say this as blind faith.
Hinduism says to acquire knowledge to understand things as it is and not to believe or to practice any kind of blind faith.
Blind faith is cheating oneself, and its not reallistic.
2007-04-30 04:47:52 · answer #5 · answered by Truthseeker 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some of the greatest thinkers in history were both very religious and worked to develop reason.
Averroes and Thomas Aquinas to name two biggies.
JoMo
2007-04-30 04:49:11 · answer #6 · answered by JoMo Rising 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am sure that idea came from my answer...did it?
yeah....u will have full faith only in which u have belief and u will have belief only which u can explain by logic
if ur rationale is not able to explain it at the back of ur mind, the faith will always be weak, and one day--will break up
2007-04-30 04:43:46 · answer #7 · answered by catty 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Faith is believing in something without proof.
Reason demands proof to believe.
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2007-04-30 04:40:58 · answer #8 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think they have to be seperate. Faith is what speaks to your soul. Reason is what makes it all make sense to you. I dont' always get that reasoning for other people, but hey to each thier own.
2007-04-30 04:38:54 · answer #9 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Faith is believing in what you do not see.
Reason is seeing first, before you believe.
2007-04-30 04:39:13 · answer #10 · answered by bettyboop 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋