Furthermore, humanity sometimes believes that it is possible to coexist without religion and deny the existence of a superior being. This group of people are called Atheist. It is possible to say that Lenin is the father of atheist “Religion is the opium of the people”. However, which way of knowledge do atheists use to base their arguments? If they base their knowledge on reason then this is unreliable since they are only taking in account one truth. This is an atheist argument. If God is all love then why is there so much bad in the world. The way of knowing they are using is perception of the environment and reasoning. Since they are only basing their decision on two areas, they only see half truths. They are not able to see that the cause of all this evil is due to the imperfections of men and their sins. Moreover, we where created with a free will and a free mind, if God forbidden you to do things he would be contradicting himself. What he can do is send signs to guide you through the path of righteousness, nevertheless it is your decision to follow it.
As previously mentioned, humans base their decision of following religion in two main ways of knowing emotion(faith) and reason, for instance the existence of a plant. Where does a plant come from? The plant itself originated from the seed. The seed is made up tissues which are made up of small cells. The cells are made up of small atoms. But who created these atoms? Many people argue that this occurred because of the big bang. However, where does the energy that created the big bang comes from? There must be someone that created it; by the use of logic humans conclude that there must be some superior being that created it. As Thomas Aquinas says “Nothing happens out of nothing”. Furthermore another example is the food chain. Because of the food chain every animal depends on each other for survival. The organization of the animal food chain is astonishing since all are linked. This organization is not only shown in the food chain in general but also in the organization of a each procedure of a living creature, for example the digestive system. The world is organised therefore God (a super natural being) exists. . A famous philosopher called Aristotle studied metaphysics which investigates the truth. Moreover his theory consisted that there is a separation between the visible world and the intelligible world. Our reason allows us to analyze things to a certain level however when we can’t ONLY use our reasoning; we must also use our faith. Faith is “the belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence”.
Faith cannot be defined as something ONLY religious. On the contrary, there are different types of faiths scientific faith, theological faith and human faith. The scientific faith is believing that theories developed by scientists are correct. To show this we could take the following case: scientists have developed a theory of atoms yet this theory is proven by experimentation but it is not 100% certain that it is like that, we have faith its correct thus atoms do exist.
In addition, human faith is when you believe you are born on the day your parents have told you it is your birthday, you are not certain of it since you can not remember that day. Another example of human faith is believing in authorities; a professor teaches a class, yet you don’t know if his teaching is 100% since you have faith that your professor knows what he is teaching you.
Furthermore, the theological faith is based on reason and afterwards it is based on religious faith. In the Roman Catholic religion the pope uses his reason and advice from other such as ethic professionals, philosophers, etc. Reason only allows analysis until a certain point moreover, where reason stops faith begins.
In conclusion, in life it is necessary to pair up faith with reason or else the decision is useless. An example of this is a woman that was diagnosed cancer, the doctors had told her that they needed to do a laparotomy . However, when the doctors did the laparotomy they saw that the cancer was not there anymore. How do you explain this supernatural event? It cannot be scientifically proven you need faith to believe it was a miracle. On the contrary faith and reason should not be used on its own. If you only use your logic side, there will be a moment where logic will be stopped and you will not be able to proceed since you have reached the logic line. If you use faith on its own you will have a complicated time applying your beliefs to the real world. As Robert Vallett once said using the human heart as a connotation of faith “The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.”
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This is the theory of the Big bang. When time was equal to 0, “an extremely dense, small patch of energy explodes because of the repulsive nature of the elementary forces.” The cooling down of this took place until this present time which condenses from energy as a “temperature decrease”
