thoeretically, if all humans were given the ability to have perfect percerption and understanding of every issue, would faith, and for that matter religion, cease to exist?
2007-08-26 02:10:01 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Yes. Faith is needed when you cannot see clearly. Such as those who believe in magic. If they could suddenly see the truth of their magical/miracle delusions, everything would change.
2007-08-26 10:50:53 · answer #1 · answered by phil8656 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Philosophy, the belief in God is taught with a few simple words and with no argument. If you look at it with clarity, indeed the words of the bible are metamorphic and not to be taken literally as most uneducated do. It is a straight answer to existentialism. life and death, and life beyond life. Yes, you are correct that the passages is not anymore adequate to the present times, but some building blocks of ethics are derived from there that withstood time immemorial. Logic dictates that if you perceive that there is Faith and there is God, you can look at it on paper God is one circle and Faith is one circle. Although you can choose to include all that is conceived inside God's Circle. And that God's name has no doubt no circle of conceptuality to encircle Him. Nothingness does not exist But I have proved it other wise with high Marks in Philosophy class. The highest amongst my class. If you classify God as Nothingness. Then I have nothing more to say except , look at the moon, think of the earth, look how far is it, and yet a man went to it and walked it. We were made by space debris crashing on each other. The question here is who,what is behind all this marvelous things?lol
2007-08-26 02:25:26 · answer #2 · answered by Brian_Galang 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps faith is clarity. Faith could be considered the surrender of self to the guidance of the Almighty. Even if mankind could understand every issue, he would still rely on GOD's grace, mercy, and salvation. Understanding does not render one infallible. Just a thought. Good Question.
2007-08-26 07:04:43 · answer #3 · answered by Soul Flower 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You said it, if it happens as a imaginative theoretical possibility of absolute equality of knowledge of everything in existence with everyone on Earth is achieved, we arrive still to the same datum when questioned, that where from we have started and where we will end. This would be unanswered forever, since the survival of humanity still based on nature and its resources and the man could still not be able to control the nature's fury unleashed like earthquake, floods, tsunamis etc plus all the unknown factors involved for the certainty of a natural catastrophe to struck and destroy all the life forms on Earth as evidenced by earlier anthropological and paleontological events, gives enough space for the God and religion to play a role to give peace and hope for those who could feel comfort by their prayers! Hence, as long as the nature holds the secret key for human sustenance and survival by its very own mechanism, the human faith in a super natural being and prayers for its intervention against all the odds for survival would always continue!
2007-08-26 02:43:00 · answer #4 · answered by anjana 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes,faith is an explanation of the things we do not know. Like wether there is an afterlife or not. If we know everything, we can start putting time and energy in more useful things than religion. Faith is a whole other thing. Faith can be put in anything, not only in some god(any of them).
2007-08-26 02:32:05 · answer #5 · answered by saskia r 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religious faith exists in the gaps between our knowledge. For what many people cannot explain they merely attribute to a greater being such as 'god'. For example, so far we do not fully understand how the universe began so many people choose the easy way out by simply saying 'god made us'. With clarity and perfect perception we would have no need for such vague and unprovable explanations.
2007-08-26 02:15:54 · answer #6 · answered by russfussuk 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Who says that faith cannot itself manifest a greater perception and understanding? The asumption that faith represents nothing but obscurantism is one of the dogmas of modernity. Read John Henry Newman's "Grammar of Assent".
2007-08-26 02:14:34 · answer #7 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clarity as defined in your description, confirms faith. The issue would be more clear if you separate faith from religion.
The abscense or prescense of clarity cannot affect faith because faith in its inherent description lies in hope.
2007-08-26 03:39:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clarity actually makes your faith stronger, because you know what not to put your faith into.
2007-08-26 02:12:52 · answer #9 · answered by T Leeves 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Even logic requires faith. Refer to DesCartes.
2007-08-26 02:16:12 · answer #10 · answered by Danny B 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋