FAITH AND KNOWLEDGE

How can faith be something certain, because "believe" doesn't mean "know"?

 

Many thinkers have been involved in the matter of faith. They all expressed divergent views, which, however, were not the result of neutral thinking, but merely a reflection of their personal viewpoint.

 

Critical Points of view :

The Atheist T.Lebzak believes : "Faith defends preconceived beliefs and rejects the provisions of science when they run counter to these beliefs". "In this way, faith is, in the final analysis, a mortal enemy of science".

Now everyone knows it's a lie.

In such a critical tone said Kant, "I had to refuse. From knowledge to give a place of faith". With this contradictory view, he prepared the ground for various philosophical currents, diametrically opposed to faith.

The consequence of critical intelligence is the slogan on one of the walls of the newly constructed high school in Norf, near Nejss, reading : "Don't trust no one who has a God in heaven".

 

Positive points of view :

The greatest physicist of all time, Isaac Newton, belongs to the saying :

"Who think only superficially, he does not believe in God ; who thinks deeply, cannot help but believe in God".

The famous mathematician Blaise Pascal, with the same conviction, proves, "how all nature speaks of God to those who know Him, and reveals to loving Him, in the same way she keeps Her secrets from those who do not seek or know Him".

 

Both opposing views clearly demonstrate that faith is not identical to ignorance, but depends only on a personal position that can be changed, but not philosophically thought, but only through a recourse to Jesus Christ, which the Bible calls Repentance. For a unconverted person, the questions of faith are foolishness, and he cannot understand them (1 Cor 1.18, 2.14). The man who is in Christ, instructed to all truth by the Holy Ghost (John 16.13), his faith has a solid foundation (1 Cor 3.11), his faith is something unambiguous and based on knowledge :

 

"Faith is the implementation of expected and confidence in the invisible" (Hebrews 11.1).

"Faith from hearing and hearing from the Word of God" (Romans 10.17).

 

 

The universe is rationally arranged by the Creator... The mind gives us knowledge, and faith guides him.

 

                                                                      Christian Wolf