RE: Why is faith important?
March 2, 2013 at 6:55 pm
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2013 at 7:36 pm by jstrodel.)
Faith is the way that people severe there connection with the world around them and become united to the seed of the revelation of God. When people believe in God, it is almost as if all the other authorities and definitions of knowing and understanding and all the other competing views give way to the reality of the holy light of God, which challenges the morality of the world around and gives a new center in Jesus Christ.
Without faith, people are just reasoning and reasoning back and forth, debating about the right way to go, with no authority. When people have faith, it is like they become wed to God, they become one, their will is unified with God, if it was through peoples reason, there would be no marriage, it would be back and forth, no commitment. With faith, there is commitment, people become committed to doing good for the rest of their life and not doing wrong. To repent is to say that I will never do wrong, it is not necessary to have some sort of intellectual proof of changing from an evil person to a good person, you just change.
And faith and reason rely upon each other and establish each other, like a man seeing his wife and knowing her is linked to a man's covenant of marriage. Reason illuminates faith, it is intoxicating, and like sexuality, is addictive and potentially destructive and deeply linked to pride and the expression of ones will or ones seed.
The marriage of faith and reason is like the combination of the covenant of marriage and sexuality. Sexuality illuminates and gives a physical union to the spiritual, permanent union of marriage, which cannot be changed. So the believer puts his absolute trust in God, and cuts a covenant and says no more will I be a wicked person, instead I will be a follower of Christ. From this point on, reason can guide the person and illuminate his choice to do good, but it can never replace good with evil.
Without faith, people are just reasoning and reasoning back and forth, debating about the right way to go, with no authority. When people have faith, it is like they become wed to God, they become one, their will is unified with God, if it was through peoples reason, there would be no marriage, it would be back and forth, no commitment. With faith, there is commitment, people become committed to doing good for the rest of their life and not doing wrong. To repent is to say that I will never do wrong, it is not necessary to have some sort of intellectual proof of changing from an evil person to a good person, you just change.
And faith and reason rely upon each other and establish each other, like a man seeing his wife and knowing her is linked to a man's covenant of marriage. Reason illuminates faith, it is intoxicating, and like sexuality, is addictive and potentially destructive and deeply linked to pride and the expression of ones will or ones seed.
The marriage of faith and reason is like the combination of the covenant of marriage and sexuality. Sexuality illuminates and gives a physical union to the spiritual, permanent union of marriage, which cannot be changed. So the believer puts his absolute trust in God, and cuts a covenant and says no more will I be a wicked person, instead I will be a follower of Christ. From this point on, reason can guide the person and illuminate his choice to do good, but it can never replace good with evil.
