Faith

1. "Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, inspite of your changing moods." - C.S. Lewis 910/28/12)
2. Faith is the ultimate way of knowing truth and is not dependent on reason or observation (2/8/12)
1. Faith is knowing (2/8/12)
1. Faith is not the same as belief. (2/8/12)
1. The difference between faith and belief is the difference between knowing and believing. (2/18/12)
2. Knowing transcends believing. (2/8/12)
1. Faith has been defined as "belief and trust"(2/8/12)
1. This gets to the idea that faith is more than just belief alone. (2/8/12)
2. See story of The tightrope and the wheelbarrow (2/8/12)
2. There is always doubt associated with all believing. There is never doubt with knowing. (2/8/12)
1. "Lord, I believe;help thou my unbelief."  (2/8/12)
3. You can believe something is true without knowing it is true. You can not know something is true without believing it is true.
3. Belief is the choice  to accepting something as true.  (2/8/12)
4. Faith and knowing are not a choice because they can not be denied. (2/8/12)
5. Sometimes a thing must be believed before it can be known but you can not chose to know. You can only chose to believe. (2/8/12)
1. Knowing is not a choice and is therefor a gift. Therefor faith is a gift.  (2/8/12)
2. There are three ways of knowing truth: (2/8/12)
1. Faith  (2/8/12)  
2. Reason  (2/8/12)
3. Observation  (2/8/12)
3. Reason and observation are dependent on faith therefor faith can not be dependant on observation or reason (2/8/12)
1. Reason is based on faith (i.e.  You can not have reason without faith) (2/8/12)
1. “Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.”- G.K. Chesterton (3/28/12)
2. To those who say they have reason without faith I ask "Do you have faith in reason?" (2/8/12)
3. The fundamental propositions of reason can not be proven through reason but must be accepted by faith. (2/8/12)
1. Fro example, If A=B and B=C than A=C can not be proven by reason but is accepted by faith. (2/8/12)
4. To discover the truth using reason reality  must obey the laws of logic.
1. There is no way prove that reality obeys the rules of logic is the true using reason. (2/8/12)
2. To try to prove it is true using reason would be circular reasoning.  (2/8/12)
3. Therefor it must be accepted on faith. (2/8/12)
2. Observation is based on faith  (2/8/12)
1. We must have faith in the idea that are senses are representing what is really there in order to use our sences to know reality.  (2/8/12)
3. An Example of a truth known by faith: If A=B and B=C than A=C  (2/8/12)
1. This statement can not be proven using reason  (2/8/12)
2. This statement can not be proven by observation  (2/8/12)
3. This statement is true  (2/8/12)
4. Therefore this statement is true on faith (2/8/12)
4. Synonymy of faith  (2/8/12)
1. Self evident  (2/8/12)
2. A priori  (2/8/12)
5. Faith can never contradicts reason.  (2/8/12)
1. Faith leads to truth just as reason leads to truth. Truth can not contradict truth.  (2/8/12)
2. "Faith" that contradicts reason is not faith but foolishness. (2/8/12)
6. Faith is not believing the unbelievable. Faith is trusting in what you already believe.
7. "The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in" (Knowing Scripture,R.C. Sproul, p.35, 7/9/11) 
8. Faith is what love sees when it looks to the future. (6/10/11)
9. "It is a law of the spiritual life that every act of trust makes the next act less difficult. Trusting becomes like breathing, the natural unconciousness of the redeemed soul." (The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life, Hannah Whitall Smith, 7/6/11  )
10.  "Faith without works is dead." --St James (8/6/11)