Faith vs. Reason?
Key verse(s)/quote(s):
“I don’t want to believe, I want to know.” – Carl Sagan
“The battle is between faith and reason on one side and emotions and imagination on the other…” – C.S. Lewis
“We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency to work up a subjective state which, if we succeeded, we should describe as “faith”, with the idea that this will somehow insure the granting of our prayer.… The state of mind which desperate desire working on a strong imagination can manufacture is not faith in the Christian sense. It is a feat of psychological gymnastics.” - C.S. Lewis
Key takeaway(s):
- God requires belief and trust in moments of human weakness, but faith is what makes us strong. Faith is the state of being convinced about what we hope for.
- Faith never means gullibility
- It is possible to increase your faith
- Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted
Overview:
One warm evening in May, I had ventured downtown with my fellowship to visit the ROM (Free night 
). After parking in Yorkville and walking south to Bloor and Avenue on the North East corner we passed by this sign outside a church.
As a few of us walked by and continued to cross the street I commented that the sign irked me. It was a horrible message to be sending out to the world about God and not only that… it came…
