is faith an excuse for non-logic?

Answer 1

Faith is an unjustified belief based on emotional needs rather than reason, so yes, in a sense you're right.

Answer 2

Not at all. Faith and Logic are 2 different things... just like Art and Science. In Faith, we use our feelings, our instincts, our hearts, our souls, our commitment, our emotions to love and trust in the Lord.

In Logic, we use our analytical minds, we base on facts, we use science and apply the scientific method.

These are 2 very different disciplines. Having faith is a matter of choice and is not forced on anybody.

Having Faith or having a religion per se, is not an excuse for non-logic.

Answer 3

I don't think so.

I thing that faith is just a hope based exercise, designed to explain the unknown.

People want to believe that there is something there after death. There is no evidence either way, so they assign faith to build hope in something better in the future.

Logic does tend to break down most faith based belief systems because they are emotionally based, but I would say a majority of believers don't use faith as an excuse not to use logic, but as a catalyst for hope.

Answer 4

When one decides to marry another, you have built a level of trust: believing, for no apparent reason, that the person you decide to spend the rest of your life with, will remain faithful to you as well. You believe, from what you have learned, and hopefully investigated (whether it be asking others about him/her, background checks, whatever it is you do to check on that person) to be truth, and thereby drawing a conclusion that you're making a good decision. Faith is believing, and trusting, with a dash of hope mixed in. It isn't illogical to trust your parents, yet, as we see/hear everyday, what reason do you have to believe that they won't go psycho on you and make an attempt on your life? Is it then illogical to have faith that your mother will always love you and care for you? No! It simply means that we are not perfect, we don't always make the best choices, for a variety of reasons, people do horrible things, is it then logical to say that ALL mothers are out to kill you?
Faith is Not illogical, nor is it an excuse for non-logic. And for those that would say it is, then you must apply that 'wisdom' to ALL things you believe and don't believe in. We apply logic to the most base desires: eating to intercourse- if I plant this seed it will grow, with care. But will it? Who's to say? Some seeds are just bad. If I talk to him/ her just so, they will like me... will they? Where'd you come up with that logic? But it does work, at times, and that is more illogical than Faith, and less investigated and thought out than whether we believe in God or not.

Answer 5

Certainly not. Faith without any basis is just stupid. Any faith should have some basis in fact.

You hire someone to do a job for you. It is faith that he will do the job well. You base this on his track record.

Faith in God's Word is no different. We have faith in future promises because He has a 100% success track record of doing what He said He would do in the past.

If He says He will wipe out wicked people and organizations from the earth, He has done it in the past so why not in the future? If He says He can restore the earth to paradise conditions, He created it from space dust anyway, we can have faith in His ability to restore it.

Answer 6

There is true faith and there is false faith. True faith is based on what is true, grows over time as evidence is accumulated, is confirmed by logic and sometimes confirmed by a witness of a higher power.

For example, let's suppose you have faith in the law of gravity. You fully believe that if you jump off the bridge you will fall down, rather than float upwards. This faith is based upon your experiences and your observations. It is based on logic and rational thinking. It may also be confirmed by a feeling in your gut that if you jump you are going to fall and hurt yourself, or die.

As another example, you may have faith in your boyfriend or girlfriend. You know you can trust them, because experience has taught you that they are trustworthy. You know they tell the truth. You know that they are reliable, decent, and that they love you. There are many evidences of the love they have for you, though you have not actually seen, heard, or felt the love directly. Only their behavior proves to you that they love you. It is by faith that you trust them, but it is also by logic.

On the other hand, you might have many experiences with your boyfriend or girlfriend that leads you to believe that they are dishonest and not trustworthy. You might have a false faith in them, but it is one of vain hope and desire. It is based on closing your eyes to reality. So, for these people in this instance their faith is an excuse for non-logic.

You cannot say that all people have only false faith unless you know exactly what evidences they have seen that give them the faith they have. Sometimes we believe strongly in our friends, and they disappoint us, in which case or faith was misplaced, but usually it is not illogical.

Answer 7

I would much rather have faith than logic anyday. Logic said the world is flat, Faith took Colombus across the ocean. Logic, said all hope is lost as you went into the concentration camps in Germany in WW2, Faith brought these people back out. Logic, said, my friend at 61 would be dead of the breast cancer in 6 months, 18 years later her faith is stronger than ever.

Answer 8

It can be for some people. But there is a necessary relationship between a person and God concerning this issue.

God is pleased by faith, and yet He is above what we would consider to be 'logic'. After all, He operates at times with paradoxes.

But to assume that a person who is in Christ is not applying logic ipso facto, would be an error. The belief we have in Christ makes us consider things in that light, it often makes us use logic to figure out a truth by several methods within scripture. Once we have crossed the hurdle of believing what we are reading in the Bible, logic may be used to to coordinate the meanings and values of the texts.

Since we have the Holy Spirit giving us the ability to believe in the first place, we have His help and guidance on these things.

Answer 9

Hi, it is logical to believe in God, since you cannot prove life coming into existance any other way (if you doubt that keep reading the messages about evolution - it was disproven a long time ago).
Christians must come to Jesus with faith like a child, believing simply because our hearts know Jesus is true.
"I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child, will never enter it." (Luke18:17)

Answer 10

Faith is not an excuse to a christain it is a way of life. Read Hebrews chapter 11. that is what God said faith is.

Answer 11

The greatest deception of the human mind in Christ's day was that the mere assent to the truth constitutes righteousness. In all human experience a theoretical knowledge of the truth has been proved to be insufficient for the saving of the soul. It does not bring forth the fruits of righteousness. A jealous regard for what is termed theological truth often accompanies a hatred of genuine truth as made manifest in the life. The darkest chapters of history are burdened with the record of crimes committed by bigoted religionists. The Pharisees claimed to be children of Abraham, and boasted of their possession of the oracles of God; yet these advantages did not preserve them from selfishness, malignity, greed for gain, and the basest hypocrisy. They thought themselves the greatest religionists of the world, but their so-called orthodoxy led them to crucify the Lord of glory.

The same danger exists today. Many of us take it for granted that they we are Christians, simply because we subscribe to certain theological tenets. But if we have not brought the truth into practical life, and if we profess faith in the truth but it does not make us sincere, kind, patient, forbearing, heavenly-minded, it is a curse to us and through our influence it is a curse to the world!