Faith Vs Knowledge

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Nowadays, in our world knowledge is easily changed by people’s belief, language and reason. When people try to change or add the knowledge, they dispel the information and some of them is never exist again. Trust and faith are very necessary for knowledge but these terms are indeed opposite. Trust is about enough support specific argument. Faith is about our feeling, intuitions and our personal knowledge. In religion, the part of area of knowledge, these two thing is really opposite because both of them disproof of their theories by ways of knowing. To what extent, does people when they develop the religion, they change the religion for their own profit or some religion knowledge disappear? For instance, when I went to Russia, I saw a …show more content…
4200 religion and sect is in our world. There is lots of religion in our world because or culture. Every culture has own faith, worship and reasons. However, these religions has a common properties like; help people, forgiveness, don not harm people or other creature. They are the most important knowledge in our world. The holy books and worship helps people to communicate with each other, shared their informations with each other. Religion effects people personal knowledge by personal knowledge. The main aim is in the religion is teach what is wrong or true by major rules. Language and faith is the common ways of knowing in believe in …show more content…
However, we forget the most important thing is reason. To what extent ,does everything in religion is reliable and it disappears in time by people? How can people know that? Reason is connected with evidence and lots of people need proofs for believe something. It is possible that religion changes perpetual and when it changed, lots of information vanished or it is vanished by people. In some condition religion and science are so opposite. In science there is a evidence to prove these situation but in religion you just find a book but you should not sure about it is true or not. A good example might be evolution because in the Holy Qur’an says that humanity consists of just two people. However Darwin’s theory says that creatures can change physical or genetic by time because of natural

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