Faith and rationality

Faith, from the Miriam Webster dictionary is defined as, “A strong belief or trust in something.” And Biblically, which is stated in Hebrews 11:1, faith is described as the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen. In the movie The Wizard of Oz we are witness to a lot of examples of faith. In the movie, the main character, Dorothy, wishes she could just leave Kansas and experience new and exciting things. Before she’s going to leave, she visits a professor in her town…

Anthropomorphism and Incredulity in Life of Pi and Yann Martel’s the theme of poetic faith is used to show how an individual uses this idea to transcend and revise what they know in order to survive uncertainty. Poetic faith is a constant and continual theme and throughout the book and essay and it is shown through the use of religion, literature and lastly the blurred lines between animal and human tendencies. Poetic faith easily shows the reasoning of Pi’s actions as well the reasoning of…

Faith is something that I learned from my own life lessons. Faith to me means many things. The first thing that comes to mind when I remind myself of faith when i’m feeling down, is going to church. I learned to have faith in God by how my parents taught me, but the real lesson I have is from teaching myself. I learned from my mistakes. God has brought me down sometimes in order to bring me up. There are many times in life that I thought I should give up and give in. I reached out the most when…

if I can classify myself into two different approaches, but after reading it seems to me that you can have qualities of each. As I stated earlier, I think the stronger approach to my life is the Relationship-Factor Approach. This approach describes the essence of who I am and how I think. It keeps up with the structures of how I was taught concerning my religious beliefs. I found it very ironic that Horton mentioned that Methodists (along with a few other denominations) are more affiliated with…

When the Census results are released later this year they’ll demonstrate that more than a third of Australians are now non-religious. Jumping from 23% in the 2011 Census to as high as 38% (which was the number recorded in a 2016 Ipsos poll), the inexorable march towards a non-believing majority will then be undeniable. Evidently, neither school chaplaincy and the increasingly evangelical Bible classes in state schools, are arresting the freefall in Christian beliefs. Soon classes in Secular…

Faith is something that everyone proclaims to have. Faith is something that Kierkegaard wanted for people to think about before claiming they possessed of it. He used Abraham’s story to explain what faith can do. Abraham is seen as the father of faith in the bible, and for Kierkegaard Abraham was the knight of faith. For the bible Abraham was the father of faith for the reason that he passed the trial that God put on him. The trial consisted of Abraham sacrificing his best, which was his son…

Elephant that is God If you asked any devout Christian or Atheist, to define the meaning of faith, they would give you completely different answers. The Christian might define faith as an unwavering belief in mankind’s salvation through Christ’s sacrifice, whereas the Atheist might say that it is an unwavering belief in something that can never be proved. Regardless of what one may have faith in, faith is not something that is easily discovered. Certainty and doubt constantly contradict one…

1. Flood defines religion in several places throughout the article. Summarize in your own words what religion is according to Gavin Flood (remember: religion is complex, so your answer should reflect that complexity). Many believe that religion is the process that an individual use to obtain or receive those things that God have reserved for us. Others seem religion as the process to obtain a high power (protection from God). We all want to get to the same level in our live where we can reach…

glory.” Explicitly, they declare their genuine beliefs in God and their deeds which honor the grace of God; however, in a deeper manner, I find that so many people are so hypocritical, inasmuch as they merely attempt to be nobly mendacious about their faith and and their action. I can comprehend the replicated, repeated contents which they intends to convey to other people, and the wordings of those spoken, or written contents are felicitous, making the hearer delighted. I am able to sense the…

Throughout the world there are several different opinions when it comes to the belief of God and the Bible. There are thousands of different religions that people belong to; the most well known being Christian and Catholic. Many writers often use different genres that help to symbolize different realism aspects of stories. For the short story, “Parkers Back” author Flannery O’Connor uses a Christian realism theme to portray the life of a man who battles with the belief of God. The idea that…