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Arguments for the Existence of God (Conclusion)
Paul Jang  2008-03-04 21:48:14, hit : 4,091


The Relation between Faith And Reason


In conclusion, the solution and understanding of all problems on the existence of God have come to be condensed to Faith and Reason. In a word, to solving and understanding these problems, it is indispensably important whether depending upon faith or reason. This problem has made most theologians as well as most philosophers confused.

Some had been biased towards the reason because they were too much rational, the others towards faith for they were too much dependable on his faith. The former have had a tendency to rationalism (extreme reason), the latter to mysticism (extreme faith).

But, most of theists object to the position to the existence of God on the level of experience alone in disregard of the reason. The reasons are these: first, there is not much known via unanalyzed experience about the nature of such a being. Second, only reason can transcend the subjectivity of the experience.Third, the argument from experience is not a rational demonstration.

For these reasons, they have offered rational proofs for their belief that there is an objective basis for their religious experience (Geisler and Corduan, 1988, 79). This is an attitude to the arguments for the existence of God based on the rational proofs for their belief that there is an objective basis for their religious experience.

But the modern reaction to theistic argument has been basically negative and skeptical. Rational arguments are widely considered to be psychologically unconvincing, logically invalid, epistemologically defective, ontologically inadequate, and axiologically misplaced. But the theists may attempt to show the undeniability of God's existence and the practical relevance of this truth to the practical needs of man (Geisler and Corduan, 1988, 93).

Of course, the Bible does not appeal to human reason as ultimate in order to prove the existence of God. For this human reason, Cornelius Van Til says as this: "Its claim is that human reason must itself be taken in the sense in which Scripture takes it, namely, as creates by God and as therefore properly subject to the authority of God" (Van Til, 1969, 15). In conclusion, reason must be supported by the Scripture and the faith from God, Jesus Christ.






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