Essay On Faith And Reason

I was unsure of what Faith and Reason were; I say that, because Faith and Reason seem to have the illusion of spiritual meanings and concepts, thus I could not accept the idea that a course of this nature would be taught in college. For me Faith and Reason express a person’s ideals, beliefs and theories on life. According to Webster’s Dictionary, faith and reason are defined as; faith being a belief and trust in and loyalty to God; fanciful or empty assumption. The images that we have come to express are not far from what the rest of the world has expressed or defined. As you continue to read my theories and ideas on the issue of Faith and Reason, you may come to understand the type of person that I am, and possibly understand how and why I believe as I do.

Nonetheless, I still believe that there is more to Faith and Reason than what is noted above. Faith in my opinion is what majority of the world lives by. Understand that when I say it thought, I am not speaking on faith in the religious or spiritual form, but in the sense of belief. Believing that things are going to happen when they happen and how they happen. This sort of faith is not breathtaking or spiritual but simple and well understood. I know and realize that everyone believes in something and that belief (Faith) is what keeps them moving and living day to day.
We profess that we have been saved by faith, and that we now live by faith. For many people, to have faith means to give our intellectual assent to a proposition, to believe that a claim or statement is true. They have given intellectual assent to certain claims or statements about God, about Jesus, about the Bible, and about the human condition. When Christian faith is seen as assent, the emphasis shifts to holding the correct views, believing the right things to be true.
It is important to recognize how this notion of faith or believing that a claim or statement is true limits and distorts our understanding and practice of Christian faith. What we believe to be true about God, about Jesus, about the scriptures then defines us and sets us apart from those who do not see things as we see them. If we imagine that belief is what God wants of us, the doubt or disbelief become sinful.
Knowing what we believe and being able to articulate it is important, but if this is all our faith is about, we have not gone deep enough. Genuine faith involves trust. Christian faith, Christian belief, has to do with a radical trust in God. It does not mean trusting in the truth of a set of statements about God; it means trusting in God.
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Thomas Aquinas believes that we can know God through reason. Reasoning needs to be logical, however there are many things such as God that cannot be logically explained without reason. We believe in God because of our faith and no one can prove he does not exist. Aquinas believes that we can know God through reason. Reasoning needs to be logical, however there are many things such as God that cannot be logically explained without reason. We believe in God because of our faith and no one can prove he does not exist. Aquinas answered the probing question with this rational; To dedicate oneself to prove the existence of God would be just as tedious as trying to prove that God does not exist. Even though God gives us the gift of knowledge we humans do not have the gumption or the capabilities to sit still to ponder the reasoning about the existence of God. Many people are wary of things of reason so if God were proven most people would still be skeptical of the reason set forth to prove God’s existence. Therefore, you are at a crossroads as to why you would want to take the time to prove that God does exist if no one is going to believe you no matter what facts you are able to back your evidence

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St. Thomas Aquinas believed that belief in God is necessary for a higher good. Aquinas believed that God was higher than reason. Those that attempt to reason their reason erroneously believe that their reason is the reason to measure all things.
Al-Ghazzali's believed in the knowledge that the moral ideas in the belief of God and reasoning as the way for all moral ideas to eventually lead to the belief in God. He believed that God was clearly from reason of “various causes, coincidences, and experiences.” He also believed that those that lead a life with God lead a better life than without him. He studied with others that had gone as far as they could intellectual he then came to the realization that a sure faith in God most high, in prophethood, and ‘in the Last Day’ that for all human beings should believe in the faith of God that both Al-Ghazzali and St. Thomas Aquinas came to believe that faith and reason were in harmony with one another and not in conflict. Each one took a different way to come to the same conclusion that God is the highest and we should all strive to achieve to live in the way God intended us to live. It does not matter if we can prove that God exists anymore than if we could prove he does not exist. God just is God and He is tHe one that has allowed us to have the knowledge and the capabilities to acknowledge Him is necessary for the ‘higher good.’
When faith is understood as trust rather than as assent, its opposite is not doubt or disbelief, but lack of trust. To have faith means to let go of anxiety and fear, and to give ourselves over to God, trusting God’s love and care for us. When we place our faith in Jesus, we believe in Him, and God grants His righteousness to us.To have faith in Jesus means to trust Him. The men simply trusted the power and goodness of the Lord, and they received their sight. When a person has faith in Jesus, it means that he or she believes who Jesus is and trusts what Jesus has done.