Are Reason and Faith at Odds?

I don't think faith is a synonym for irrationality. In other words, faith should be reasonable. Faith and reason are not completely the same thing, but one faith is not a license for the irrational. How do we deal with that? Let’s take the Gospel for example: I'm saved because God acted on my behalf, and I'm going to trust him with that. I can't go back in time and watch the real event. I'm limited. I can't experience it. It's perfectly reasonable, and I'm going to accept that God did that. Check this out!

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[graphguy]

Read every book he published and in 1 year. Doing so, enlightened me more than 30 years of regular church attendance.

[TheDoneroll]

Its either you love or hate Dr. Heiser, ,,but for me i love him... He's answers were direct and yet you have to ponder at the same time ..

[stefanpesic]

I pray for you Dr. Michael S. Heiser, may God bless you and may He give you health to overcome the evil disease you are fighting with so that you can have more time to spread faith to good people of this earth with your wisdom and knowledge. I never met you but I love you and your work. Your books and your videos are helping me overcome the depression I am struggling with. I just wish you all the best and I thank you for everything.

[mrmerfeo]

0:36 I heard once that faith also means persistence since one cannot persist (that is have faith) in something pointless or abstract, not genuinely anyway. At the other hand we cannot "know" everything so maybe having the humility to admit that we won't have all the pieces kind of helps.

[darrellscholl]

I have thought about this a lot. The way the Bible is cohesive makes perfect sense to me. I am a person who is big on logic.

[suzanneflowers]

I so appreciate Dr. Mike sharing his work and making it understandable for laypeople. What I'm learning is invaluable. Our Savior has accomplished so much more than I ever realized.

[murphymerryliz]

🙏🏽Speedy healing prayers for Dr. Heiser🙏🏽

[robertpillowjr.]

Praise God! Thank you for that. That was a terrific answer! I learn so much from you. You articulate things in a way that I cannot and it is unbelievable helpful! Your teaching are such a blessing!

[frankmckinley]

Good answer regarding faith and reason. They are not in conflict.

[geraldjohnson]

Aside from my Salvation Faith is the best gift God has given
Me.Amen. Because with Faith comes all Things from GOD.

[rhodananfuka]

Reasoning understands what faith has believed

[daniellazo]

Cold-Case Christianity by J. Warner Wallace is great book. Highly recommend it!

[deborahgrantham]

The Bible says to use reason and logic. Some have faith that that anything you don’t see or understand, doesn’t exist. We don’t see or understand gravity and quantum physics. 🤷‍♀️

[hlpever]

Depends on what you have faith in. Faith in everything magically appearing out of nothing is faith. Believing in anything that you have not personally experienced or witnessed is faith. Believing in science because people who are paid to push an agenda is faith.

[borderlinebrian]

Hey Mike, how about a video on chastisement? God bless!

[travelchannel]

Boy i could have used this since age 15!

[thetruthchannel]

*Reason is how you cope within a certain knowledge set or knowledge environment. Faith doesn't oppose reason and reason doesn't oppose faith. Faith interacts with the knowledge set or knowledge environment that deals with the Spiritual realms and the Kingdom of God. Faith receives that knowledge so then based on that knowledge set you REASON within those boundaries. Reason isn't a static program. It is a multi-program running according to multiple baselines of information. We receive knowledge about the physical realm we are native to. We act in faith according to that knowledge. We reason according to that baseline. We receive knowledge from God about other realms which we are not native to despite being adopted into as if though we were. We then reason according to that baseline. The knowledge environment dictates how we reason through a set of variables.*

[wisdomoftheearlychristians]

I like the way he explains faith as reasonable. We exert faith in our lives every day in all kinds of ways; we just don't give it any thought. That's why it always makes me laugh when people say they couldn't believe anything that required faith.

Meanwhile, every time you get in an airplane, you are exercising faith..that the pilot isn't drunk, that they did the preflight checklist. Every time you go through a green light you are exercising faith that the cars with the red light will remain stopped..but they don't have to. That's faith. Every man raising a child that didn't ask for a DNA test is exercising faith. It crops up every day. All day. We just don't realize our whole society is based on faith that everyone else is going to follow the rules. And they mostly do, which is why we don't even notice that life requires our faith, lol.

[adamkelm]

It's a plumbline. faith is the point of reference and reason is the plumb. Truth is found in the tension between the point of reference and the plumb, why? Because we are finite beings.