Faith for Christians

Note: This was a crap essay written for my Christianity class on the fly. Take it with a grain of salt.

Christians’ faith in Jesus Christ is based upon many books written by humans in another language decades after he died. While always seeking the truth about God, Christians are often reluctant to accept the possibility that errors exist in the Bible. Instead, they try to take everything in the Bible literally, narrowing their vision.

Reasoning and faith do not influence the each other much; one always dominates the other. Reasoning and faith interfere with each other because having faith is essentially believing without reasoning. When one reasons, one begins to question and thus, in others’ eyes, begins to lose faith.

Reasoning is only accepted when it flows with faith, never when they are in opposition. Athanasius disproves Arianism by using two logical proofs. One begins with, “No creature can redeem another creature,” and the other, “Only God can save.” These two statements depend on the automatic assumptions that no creature can redeem another and that only God can save. The possibility that God allows a creature to save and redeem another would crush his proof.

Science, on the other hand, is based on no faith. Everything is shown using if-then logic, always trying to determine cause and effect. In essence, it is attempting to play God, taking matters into their own hands. Faith is useless if it cannot help science on its quest to be able to cause effects.
Science is very much like Christianity, except the scientists themselves are the gods. Like the Christians who refuse to believe anything that goes against the Bible, their authority on God, scientists only believe in their own gods (themselves) and what they can do. If they cannot yet do it then it is merely superstition.

Although there are many open-minded Christians and scientists, these are the problems inherent whenever these two fields cross each others’ paths. Having a deep belief in one field tends to affect the belief in the other field. Rare are the well informed and unbiased.