Answer using your rational mind, not a holy book please.
2007-09-06 04:23:37 · 23 answers · asked by wondermus 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The deification of the reason can form another type of faith as well. If we accept "ratio" as an idea on an axis of values, then we have to search for the opposite idea, the non-rational (=irrational) to create a bi-pole. Irrational includes feelings and also faith. This can be derived from the basic logical formula: Thesis + antithesis = synthesis.
P.S. I am not religious; I am an agnostic.
2007-09-06 04:44:17 · answer #1 · answered by from_anotherplanet 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know you'll probably bristle at this, but I can only give you an accurate answer if I make sure you are aware that God Himself defined faith, and there is nothing irrational about it. He said that "Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld." (Heb 11:1)
I can't see, or "behold", gravity itself, but I have the evident demonstration of it's existance in that if I drop a rock, it's going to hit the ground (or more often than not, my toe... OWW!). I have faith that gravity works.
2007-09-06 11:47:11 · answer #2 · answered by Rae 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What can you give a Creator of all things that God doesn't already possess? The only thing is our faith in Him and our undivided worship. You would not give sand to an Arab or ice to an Eskimo for the same reasons.
2007-09-06 11:33:45 · answer #3 · answered by grnlow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He would not, But then you are assuming He would not care to.
God is Spiritual and does not need to accumulate facts and make judgments to decide any issue so the word rational is moot. That is making God human with human limitations He doesn't have.
2007-09-06 11:31:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It takes faith to believe in something that you haven't seen. I would want people who follow my example with or without me there, so it makes sense to me why a rational God would vaule faith.
2007-09-06 11:32:23 · answer #5 · answered by DiscipleN8 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John 3:16: For God so love the world that He sent His only begotten Son, that whosoever should believe on Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.
Does that sound rational to you? Have you looked at this corrupt and selfish world? Would you even give up your next meal so that this world could have a relationship with you? God's ways are not our ways and His thoughts are higher than ours. They make no sense to us but His love makes Him available to us.
2007-09-06 11:31:12 · answer #6 · answered by drivn2excelchery 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I guess it would be to continue existing. After all, very few people worship Zeus or Enkil anymore, and as a result, their influence in our world is greatly diminished. Deities today don't want to go the way of those passed, and thus require their faithful to worship.
2007-09-06 11:30:48 · answer #7 · answered by Raven Winterstide 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask the rational god
There is no value in religious faith.
2007-09-06 11:29:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
A reasonably good equivalent (though not perfect) is that wouldn't you rather have your children behave well and obey you because they love and respect you. Or would you rather your children behave because you will beat them like a rug if they don't. A loving God wants you to have faith in Him/Her because of the creation of a world that has everything we need if we are good Stewart's. If He/She revealed Him/Herself (this is getting tedious) and punished us for our transgressions and rewarded us for our good behaviour, we might as well be robots. If there is a God, that is.
2007-09-07 08:57:33 · answer #9 · answered by william a 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i imagine if there were a god, it would be incapable of faith. how could something believe in anything without evidence, if it already knew and was the author of everything?
to know the price of everything and the value of nothing...what, if anything, would matter to a being of limitless knowledge, power, and with deathless life?
2007-09-06 11:29:23 · answer #10 · answered by Free Radical 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋