Argumentative Essay: Do We Have Faith?

Humans are a very unique species. There are no other known species in the world, even the universe, that can compare to the complexity of this race. Humans were created with reason and logic, something no other species has. Yet, we have faith in things that may seem irrational. There are many things people have faith in, for example: a sea being split in half, bread just forming in the middle of a desert, and even a man raising himself from the dead. Reason can be a great ally to faith at times, but there are still times that you must rely on faith alone.
People have faith in many possible phenomena which is highly unlikely to happen in nature. For example, there are about 13-14 million Jewish people and two billion Christians living on this planet. All of them are human and have the ability of rational thought, yet they all believe that a man, through his faith in God, parted a sea into two halves for such an extended period of time that a whole nation could walk to the other side of the sea. Yet there could be a rational explanation to this, albeit a bit stretched. If the conditions were just right it is possible that very strong, and I stress that they would have to be incredibly powerful, winds that could have somehow split the sea. It sounds ridiculous and insane but it is …show more content…
Faith should be about taking that blind leap. You do not know if what you put your faith in is correct, but that is the unique aspect of faith. You will never know if you’re right until the end of the journey. No matter what it is you put your faith in, if it is in a deity or another person, you will not know whether you are correct until the end of it all. With God you’ll know at the end of your life. With another person you’ll know at the end of your relationship with that person. It will come with times of firm belief, troubling times and times of extreme doubt. But that is the journey that a person with faith should