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Reasoning Faith...Pt 2 of 2

Writer: White StoneWhite Stone

You have to have reasoning faith. And then even greater faith to encourage

others to accept this truth that they may be free. Justification makes us free

from the guilt of sin. Sanctification makes us free from the bondage of

corruption. Reasoning makes us free from invalid assumptions. Free from

spiritual enemies. Free from prejudices, mistakes, and false notions, which

entangle the soul. Free to be restored to the government of God. The mind,

by admitting the truth of Christ in the light and power, is vastly enlarged, and

has scope and compass given it, is greatly elevated and raised above things

of sense, and never acts with so true a liberty as when it acts with truth

acquired through reasoning faith with every word of God. Those who accept

every truth of God have the freest reasonings that are guided by faith, and

those are people of free thought, whose thoughts are captivated and brought

into obedience to Christ. Reasoning faith preserves truth!

the Truth
the Truth

Consider the wisdom afforded by viewing all things by faith. It affects how we

interact with others. It shapes our understanding of the past, the present, and

tomorrow. We reason in our faith to make full commitment to God, trusting

wholeheartedly to every experience He places us in. We become united with

His chosen because of this committed faith in the truth. This union is a

physical substance that serves as evidence of the ultimately unverifiable. By

faith we are disposed to ascend in allegiance to the Lord and to His cause

and purpose. And the wonderful aspect of such a proposition is this…this

faith we can have in others. Our experiences will be in physical reality and

spiritual reality. Where there is difference of opinion or even controversy, the

core foundational faith in the word of God will remove all arbitrariness.

Take a moment to reason with this truth. There is this collection of sixty-six

separate writings by a variety of authors upon which a determined people

place reasoned faith…why?...because they believe in God and know that

this collection is the revealed word of God for mankind. It records the

dealings of God with humanity and the reactions, the responses of humanity

to the revelation received. Here is what gives faith its power – it is the work

of our reasoning and will, but also with the intervention of the Holy Spirit

specifically granted, supported, and gratuitously offered by God. God

expects us to reason with, to investigate, to study with intense scrutiny and

debate every word. The problem with most is that they know not how to

reason with God. For certain we hear the words written, but God ain’t through

talking yet. He has more of Himself to reveal to us. The Holy Spirit has much

to say that He hears from God. God gave counsel to a woman messenger.

He has stars who are commanded to bring light to the world. Our faith is

heavily impacted by written words. God actually specifically asks people

throughout scripture to write things down. We move from truth discovery

writing things by hand...
writing things by hand...

through writing. There's a fascinating connection between our brains and

written words. Writing things by hand actually boosts our memory. Words

written in agreement with scripture, instruct and awaken and delight and

transform people into obedient worshipers of Christ. Writing must become

an instrument in the hand and under the power of the Holy Spirit. It's like God

thought of this stuff before making us.


The word of God engages both faith and reason. Every other aspect of our

life on earth is different from our interaction with the Divine. When we come

to reason with God we are connecting with a concept that we were purposed

to bring pleasure to. God-given light of reason to our minds is to establish

truth that is free from internal contradictions. Reasoning faith renders the

regular avenues of intellectual attainment and marginal things that may

dominate the mind as pale in comparison to the pursuit of divine revelation.

God’s invitation to reason is for proclamation of truth which may be

independent of what any of us think. Yet, with reasoning faith, appropriate

response is instructed by the Holy Spirit. When we come to understand this

reasoning faith we come to God not attempting to penetrate His height, for in

no way can our understanding compare. We come by faith seeking to

understand to the extent He purposes in His truth. And His truth, we both

believe, and love.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. {Isaiah 1:18}

Reasoning faith deepens our experience, our learning, our knowledge, when

presented with situations in that we are able to draw upon foundational

principles that intertwine both in a beneficial way. Some knowledge can only

be arrived at by reason, and some only by faith. We must understand the

balance. Do you need a reason to believe in God or do you know by faith

that He is God? Reason makes certain assumptions; faith is coherent with

presentiment. What comes after is supported by what has come before.

Reasoning faith is a condition for arriving at a fully comprehensive, coherent,

consistent, and true principle. There is an important relationship between

reason and faith. Neither can exist separate from one another. God says

come to reason and with that invitation must be faith in God. Reasoning faith

shores up our strength of testimony. Faith informed by external belief and

reasonable evidence is powerful. Jesus speaks of empowered faith when he

says, “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly

shall flow rivers of living water.”


Reason and faith have each been considered to be sources of justification

for conscientious belief. Reason properly employed and faith properly

understood, will never produce contradictory or competing claims. God’s true people possess a domain of thought rightly governed by faith, asserting that

all meaningful and truthful statements and ideas are accessible to thorough

examination by reasoning. How powerful becomes the mind when reasoning

faith is the source of development for every thought. Faith and reason are

both sources from the authority of God upon which beliefs can rest. Reason

intellectual, moral, visual, or spiritual
intellectual, moral, visual, or spiritual

is understood as the principles for a structured procedure of inquiry, whether

intellectual, moral, visual, or spiritual. Faith involves a stance toward an

assertion that is not, at least presently, demonstrable by occasion. So, faith

is a kind of attitude of trust or assent. As such, it is ordinarily understood to

involve an act of will or a commitment on the part of the believer. Faith

involves a belief that makes either an implicit or explicit reference to a

transcendent source. The basis for a person’s faith usually is understood to

come from the authority of revelation. And revelation is either direct or by

infusion based on the testimony of an other. Reasoning faith comes from the

fact that the revelation or set of revelations on which most beliefs are based,

is usually described and interpreted in sacred pronouncements, either in an

oral principle or undisputed writings, backed by divine authority.


God tells us to reason. We are to have a good reason for what we believe,

and we are to be ready always to share that testimony with other people. So,

we attempt to show unbelievers that our belief in the scriptures is reasonable,

justified, and logically and spiritually sound. But what of those who read the

words and are not able to understand? Are they to live by reason or by faith?

Are they supposed to rely upon their intellect, drawing rational conclusions,

rejecting those things that don’t make sense? Or are they to accept the

teachings of scripture without regard to logic and reason, even if it does not

make any sense? If God says it, that’s it! Faith is not believing what you don’t

know. Faith is strongly warranted confidence. It is not wishful thinking. It’s a

confident expectation: the kind of confidence we have through reasoning

with the truths of scripture. Biblical faith is the act of believing in something

unseen for which we do have a good reason. Every word that God has ever

spoken has been demonstrated. Reason is a means given us that allows us

to draw conclusions and inferences from other information, such as the

information God has given us in His Word. We reason from the principles of

God’s word. You believe you are saved by faith…what’s your reason? In

reasoning faith our unquestionable starting point must be with God’s word

and not what we think. In order to reason about anything we must have faith

that there are laws of common sense which correctly prescribe the correct

chain of reasoning
chain of reasoning

chain of reasoning. Since laws of logic cannot be observed with the senses,

our confidence in them is a type of faith. Laws are an expression of the self-

consistent nature of God. We should not conclude from this that we can think

exactly as God thinks; after all, He is infinite and we are finite, He knows all

things, and we must learn of things. Nonetheless, we are able to line up our

thinking with God’s nature and God’s word. That is why we have the Holy

Spirit. That we do not distort the truth. The bible makes sense. And that is a

good reason for our faith.


We study the bible to show ourselves approved of God. There is a difficulty

about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all our reasoning

power comes. We could not be right and He wrong any more than the sky

could fall. When any argue against Him they are arguing against the very

power that makes them able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch

cutting off the branch you are sitting on
cutting off the branch you are sitting on

you are sitting on. Faith holds on to things our reason has accepted as truth,

in spite of our lack of understanding. The battle is between faith and reason

on one side; and emotion and opinion on the other. Faith comes before

reason and then reason allows faith to grow. Faith enables a believer to

understand further truths that could not be discovered through reason alone.

Both faith and reason lead us to the one Truth who is God.


Reasoning faith is the extension of spiritual dialogue. God’s people commit

to dialogue to show the worth of revelation. All expressions of truth as

manifested in the word of God are to foster authentic, good, and mutual

enhancement in the unity of the faith. The united endeavor of reasoning faith

will enable people to come to the full measure of their humanity created in

the image and likeness of God, renewed even more marvelously, after sin,

in Christ, and called and purposed to shine forth in the light of the

Spirit. God’s people are challenged to be a community whose members

discover truth by ardent development of faith and by rigorous exercise of

reason. In this challenge important questions are considered. And so God

counsels us to plead together, putting Him in remembrance that we may be

justified. Christ is looking for faith. His Father wants us to reason with Him!

When we give Him sound, spiritual reasons for our requests, He can gauge

very accurately our growth in grace, knowledge, and faith. He can see if we

are still carnal and self-centered, or if we are showing love for our brethren.

Let us reason faithfully with God according to His will.

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