A comparison between "faith" and reason
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Post #22
Faith is like Love , we can believe in love and rationalize it but the only way we can know it is when we feel it. The answer lies beyond reason and faith, reason and faith are the workings of our own minds . Isaiah wrote my words are not your words. Faith and reason are doings from our minds, mental and emotional constructs. What is , is as real as the smell of an orange, trying to report the smell and believing how it smells loses it, describing it only loses the essence of what it is and believing means never having actually smelled it, even the orange does smell indescribably good. Neither faith nor reason can describe what is.
Post #23
RESPONSE: I'd prefer to stick with the "mental constructs" which can be objectively verified. I don't substitute "feelings."dio9 wrote: Faith is like Love , we can believe in love and rationalize it but the only way we can know it is when we feel it. The answer lies beyond reason and faith, reason and faith are the workings of our own minds . Isaiah wrote my words are not your words. Faith and reason are doings from our minds, mental and emotional constructs. What is , is as real as the smell of an orange, trying to report the smell and believing how it smells loses it, describing it only loses the essence of what it is and believing means never having actually smelled it, even the orange does smell indescribably good. Neither faith nor reason can describe what is.
As in "I feel that there must be a God" therefore there is a God.
I feel there must be a Santa Claus, so there must be a Santa Claus.
Post #24
[Replying to post 23 by polonius.advice]
How else can one explain it other than feeling , the Vedantists call it suchness, that which is . Believing in and trying to rationalize it doesn't work, it simply can't be explained any way.
How else can one explain it other than feeling , the Vedantists call it suchness, that which is . Believing in and trying to rationalize it doesn't work, it simply can't be explained any way.
Faith and evidence
Post #26RESPONSE: Then evidence, not faith, established the realityThe evidence: The Sun has shone on the Earth since the Sun and Earth came into being. There is nothing that guarantees that the Sun will or will not shine tomorrow except the past evidence that it has done so before mankind even existed.
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Re: Faith and evidence
Post #27Your opinion has been noted. I hope you are not one that thinks the Sun no longer exist because you can't see the Sun because of a cloudy day.polonius.advice wrote:RESPONSE: Then evidence, not faith, established the realityThe evidence: The Sun has shone on the Earth since the Sun and Earth came into being. There is nothing that guarantees that the Sun will or will not shine tomorrow except the past evidence that it has done so before mankind even existed.
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