How do you know whether something is real or not? Do you have to see it, touch it, smell it, hear it, taste it? Are the 5 senses the only way to know something is real or not? And what separates fact from opinion?
Irrefutable logic is that which you can use the 5 senses to verify. A mathematical problem that you can work out on paper, proving it one way or another. Finite... no wiggle room.
But faith and opinion go hand in hand. My opinion is that there is a Goddess and a God. That is also my faith. I have faith that everything in nature has both a feminine and a masculine. Deity does as well. This is my faith, and my opinion.
Not everyone shares this opinion, or this faith. I don't ask that they believe it, or feel the same. This is personal, just for me.
Faith is personal for everyone. No matter whether you attend a church, a mosque, a temple, or simply worship at an altar in your home or in the woods, your faith exists only in your heart and mind. And Noone can dictate to you what your faith will be. Because it exists only in your heart and mind, it is inviolate. People can talk all they want, but your heart and mind know what they know.
Faith is taking that blind leap, knowing, all the way to your toes, that you will be caught before you hit. You can't prove it, you can't even explain it really. Explanations continually slide off to the side, into opinion, before they finally disappear into shoulder shrugs and someone simply saying "I know what I know." You can't argue away faith, you can't reason with it, and you certainly can't scream it down. Science doesn't negate it, nor does mathematics or any of the other "logic" schools.
So, faith vs. logic... do they have to be mutually exclusive? Can they ever work together? I don't think so. You can prove things up to a certain point, especially things like religion. But once you get past history and science, you have to take the rest..... on faith.
Faith is taking that blind leap, knowing, all the way to your toes, that you will be caught before you hit. You can't prove it, you can't even explain it really. Explanations continually slide off to the side, into opinion, before they finally disappear into shoulder shrugs and someone simply saying "I know what I know." You can't argue away faith, you can't reason with it, and you certainly can't scream it down. Science doesn't negate it, nor does mathematics or any of the other "logic" schools.
So, faith vs. logic... do they have to be mutually exclusive? Can they ever work together? I don't think so. You can prove things up to a certain point, especially things like religion. But once you get past history and science, you have to take the rest..... on faith.
