Reason and Faith
July 17, 2012 at 6:22 pm
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2012 at 6:23 pm by Forsaken.)
Got this from a theist. Having a hard time deciphering the meaning behind this. Can anyone help what the writer actually means? Looks like "this and that" and god-of-the-gaps, therefore GOD!
Quote:Faith and reason decide what is true. What we know to be true by using our reason and what we believe to be true in faith cannot contradict each other. The supernatural gift of divine faith goes beyond reason (although they do not go against reason). It stands by itself as an independent way of knowing something. Yet it is not the same as direct knowledge about something. It is like knowledge because it states that things really are a certain way. Yet it is often uncertain about why things are this way or how they can be this way.
The believer, therefore must continue to think and use reason to answer the objections that reason itself brings up. Faith then is not the result of an argument; it is not caused by reasoning. It is a supernatural gift from God. And yet a lot of reasoning comes before it and continues inside of it.
