God regrets giving us brains. We were awarded our intelligence by a direct disobedience of God. God holds grudges. He realizes by providing us with brains, those of us who use them, will not accept the lies he tried to pass off in scripture.
Good Grief!
2007-07-09 09:20:13
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answered by Good Grief 2
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Because your hero, Thomas Paine, gave "reason' a bad name like Hitler and Jim Jones gave religion a bad name.
Besides, objective reasoning is a logical component of sound reasoning in spiritual matters concerning faith. After all, believers have to live here on earth, too. God obviously has nothing against reason; it's just that those who claim to be endowed with it to the arrogant levels and manners that most atheists do, faith simply means that one is teachable and reachable. It's faith and works together; not one to the exclusion of the other.
2007-07-09 09:28:41
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answered by RIFF 5
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Eleventy,
You're going to overtax their brains if you keep this up.
As you will surmise, I refute your hypothesis. I think if there is a God, he will surely reward reason and logic over blind, stupid, groveling faith any day of the week! It's the blind, stupid, groveling believers that assume God rewards faith over reason.
I apologize for subjecting you to quotations you've likely seen ad nauseum. Nonetheless they are still applicable:
A casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, (1844-1900)
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
— Galileo Galilei
Being unable to reason is not a positive character trait outside religion.
— Dewey Henize
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
— Sophocles
I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
— Somerset Maugham
I’ve never understood how God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion by faith – it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly; and where it fails them, they cry out, it is a matter of faith, and above reason.
— John Locke (1632-1704)
2007-07-09 12:57:10
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answered by HawaiianBrian 5
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I think the line of reasoning is based on the fact that people love their dogs. The dog isn't smart but it's faithful. So by some kind of weird reasoning you don't have to be smart to be loved by god. Sometime we have family members that are "special" but we don't kick them out of the family because they aren't smart. In many aspects you have to turn off reason to accept religion, because logic says what you're doing is stupid. This pressure to turn our brains off is why in the USA (one of the more religious countries) we've raised ignorance to a virtue. Smart people are "Nerds". Cool people don't do homework etc. We Revere sports figures not scientist. Someone asked me about Michael Jordan once when I had no idea who he was, it was a laugh riot for him and his friends, but he had never heard of Carl Sagan or Warner Von Braun.
Welcome to the special Ed super power. If you aren't a former short bus student we don't want you for president.
Blessed Be
2007-07-09 09:31:41
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answered by ♥Gnostic♥ 4
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You are definitely confused..a persons faith is only as good as what he has faith in. Let me explain about faith in God. Those who seek the truth receive a gift from God. This gift of faith is not blind but through faith comes revelation...God reveals his truth to you...through revelation comes a personal relationship with God. There is only one truth and it comes from revelation of God. God does not ask you not to use reason but reveals his truth to you. If you have ever reasoned wrong then surely you understand your reasoning abilities are not perfect and perhaps you might realize your need for a perfect God. Your faith seems to be in your ability to reason which we should be able to agree is not perfect.
2007-07-09 09:29:15
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answered by djmantx 7
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Because our reasoning capacity was greatly diminished when Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit.
We use only - what - 8%? 10%? of our mind. Your reasoning ability will lead you in the wrong direction.
Imagine that you're lost in a forest or jungle, and there is a perpetual fog. You reason to yourself that if you just go straight, you will eventually get out. What you don't realize is that you're actually going in circles, and unbeknownst to you, there is a cliff that you won't see until you actually step off. Now, add to this a walky talky and a voice (with no face, of course), trying to give you directions to get out of the jungle. You need to apply faith and blindly follow those directions. Or, you can continue to follow your reasoning and remain lost indefinitely and eventually fall to your death over the cliff.
God said that we are lost in our sins and trespasses, and we can not find our way back to God. He gives us directions to get us out of our lost condition, but like the man with the walky talky, we need faith to follow His directions, or remain lost indefinitely.
Jesus said, "Broad is the way that leads to death, and many there be that find it. Narrow is the gate that leads to life, and few there be that find it." Furthermore, Jesus said "I am the door".
You take your choice. When it comes to getting to heaven, you can either "blindly" follow God by faith and let Him lead you out of your lost condition, or go on walking around in circles until you walk your way right over the cliff that drops into hell. God wants you in heaven. The choice, however, is really up to you.
2007-07-09 09:30:57
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answered by no1home2day 7
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I wouldn't say that faith is more important necessarily, and I do think that God appreciates us when we use our brains, but reason alone doesn't lead someone to God (as evidenced by a lot of atheists who don't believe in God on a rational basis).
2007-07-09 09:22:53
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answered by Anonymous
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Let's examine the sun rising.
Reason tells us that the Sun will rise the next morning because the Earth is rotating on it's axle's. We can reason this before we close our eyes and go to sleep for the night.
Faith tells us that we can go to sleep without a full 100% knowledge and resolved reason about what is going on within our planets health and in outter space. We need faith to get to sleep without worrying about gamma-rays, solar flares, polar shifts, and asteriods stopping the normal order of the day to night switch. So, we go to sleep with faith that God's will be done and faith that life will continue as we know it.
Even if you don't have a profound "Faith" in a God, you still need faith that the sun will rise tomarrow before you go to sleep --- otherwise you will spend each night up in fear over what cannot be controled and saying good-bye to your loved one's.
The reward here would be sound sleep (with faith) vs. a night full of anxiety over the reason you do not control. God is good to let us sleep!
2007-07-09 09:26:20
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answered by Giggly Giraffe 7
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i dont have this experience. speaking for myself, god has blessed my reason, not my faith. but i agree that everyone is different. the goal anyway is to understand god. without understanding faith and reason both are irrelevant.
2007-07-09 10:01:49
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answered by Anonymous
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I don't know why they even think that.
Their own Bible clearly says that faith without works is dead
2007-07-09 09:27:44
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answered by t_rex_is_mad 6
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A truly just God wouldn't punish people for questioning irrational, 2000 year old stories... at least I wouldn't if I were a just God i guess.
2007-07-09 09:23:43
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answered by mark r 4
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