Thursday, November 20, 2008

(NN) Results of Faith and Reason

In class the other day someone said "If faith produced results it would be called reason; reason produces results," I'm not sure I agree with this statement. Faith isn't void of results; it calms the soul and gives people comfort. I see a result as something, anything, that happens in reaction to another thing. So being calmed by the faith of God would be a result of faith. If reason was the only thing that produced results I think it would be a bleak World. I say this because reason is a very non-emotional state being so if results only came from reason there would be non emotion in the World. Emotions are one thing that sets humans apart from animals; we recognize our emotions and act on them. Thus, humans are a mixture of reason and emotion. If humans were to be void of one or the other life would be very different because either we would be emotionless or fully run by emotions, both a dangerous way for the human race to live. So, I think that reason does produce results, just those void of emotion, and the faith produces results as well, just those filled with emotions.

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