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Faith and Reason - Why Do We Believe in God
Faith and Reason - Why Do We Believe in God
of God. He discussed the idea that human beings have the desire of what is divine. To long for
something that is beyond the material world will point out to the existence of God. Another point
that caught my attention was when he talked about the problem of evil; Bishop Barron
addressed the problem of evil by acknowledging its existence in the world, in the same time
arguing about it, that it does not disprove the existence of a benevolent God.In my opinion he is
right, God is someone that is loving and caring; an all powerful entity that can do anything in His
will, and the will of God is good and will only bring peace and love to our lives.
One thing that also struck me the most is when he argued about faith and reason being
complementary to each other. Us as humans we are rational beings who would start questioning
abundance of things, for example asking ourselves who is God and why should I believe in God
if we don’t see him. This puts the role of faith in our lives, where faith is believing in something
that is not seen. Our rationality as human beings will say otherwise, we would say that even
though God is not seen we feel His presence with us and that. Our rationality will boost our faith
because it will give us the point of realization that God is existing in our lives.