Finding Faith in an Age of Reason:
How to Know God and be Made Right with Him:
Presenting a reasonable faith for those who would like to believe in a God who is good but find that reason and logic suggest the evidence to be insufficient.
Yet there is a knowing of the heart that provides a pathway of hope for all who would hear and respond to an unseen God who desires to reveal himself and who reaches out to us with love and longing.
This site aims to provide a perspective from which to view some common objections that seem to negate the possibility of God, as commonly understood.
Without being dismissive of philosophical argument, the case is here made for a pathway to knowing that comes with belief and faith inspired by the many bible passages that describe how God appeals to the human heart in revealing himself and making himself known to us.
Quick Links:
Reasonable grounds for God and faith?
God’s good, acceptable and perfect will
The Mystery of How Justice and Mercy have been satisfied
God offers ‘salvation’ - to eternal life redeemed and transformed
The Contested views:
Is there a God?
A voice of reason:
“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.” (2)
2. A lecture by Richard Dawkins extracted from The Nullifidian (Dec 94),
From the Bible:
When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me with all your heart, Jeremiah 29:13 New RSV
God is not a man, that He would lie, nor a son of man, that He would change His mind; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good? Numbers 23:19 NASB
For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. 1 Corinthians 1:25 NIV
By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. Hebrews 11:3 NIV
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18 NIV
Introduction:
Is it right to consider our capacity for faith unreasonable?
— or is it a uniquely human ability not lightly to be dismissed?
Questions:
What does it mean to have faith?
What does the bible say about believing in God?
What benefits are promised to those who choose to believe?
Is having faith reasonable, or is it a ‘cop out’ that believes blindly ‘in spite of’ the evidence?
Can we have faith in God when we see so many problems in this world?
Are there benefits from believing that atheism does not understand?
Is there a pathway to belief and faith for those with genuine doubts and questions about God?
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A Page for Inspiration and Reflection: Purpose of site in one passage