Faith And Reason: Reason Vs. Reason

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Randy Nguyen

Brother Owen J. Sadlier, OSF.

Logic

12/15/17

In the world we live in there are reasons for everything, and we all have a certain type of faith that we believe in within ourselves. Reason can be best understood with principles such as intellectual, moral, religious and practical inquiry. Faith is very comprehensible by reason, and they are both are like the sources of authority upon the beliefs we believe in such as the Christian faith. People who are believers put their faith in the Lord, and there is a reason why they do it. A person, who lacks in faith or deny God’s existence, can still find comfort in the practice of religion.
Logic plays a big role in the conversation between faith and reason, where the
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However sometimes, it shows and says different things. Overall faith and reason can be considered to be sources of religious belief. Reason reveals a lot in life such as experience and logic. From reason, people know that there is a God, and that there is only one God, and is accessible to everyone. Faith covers what we really know God’s revelation, which derives from the Bile and Christian tradition. Faith is what builds on reason. Both faith and reason are both ways of arriving to the truth.

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Faith and reason are also based on a person’s behavior, cultural beliefs, and how that affects their daily lives. Reason is what holds justification and with conclusions can lead to the truth. Faith and reason are correlated in many ways, and are important to one another. Reason is big in people’s faith, which shows them the power of God and his existence. A person’s reason is based on logical principles because faith is very vital in people’s

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