Logic struggles to find answers to faith

Perhaps Kierkegaard has it right when he says that there is no such thing as objectivism. Surely he is right when he says what man internalises becomes truth. And that truth can only exist from within. Thus, by no means can we obtain truth by acquiring knowledge. To refrain from the ideas of other men is often less harmful than appeasing the mind by following writers, philosophers and scientists. Our world with all its mysteries pave the way for probabilities in which we weigh thoughts according to subjective preferences.

The world's logic does not challenge you. Our lazy senses accept weak hypotheses about life. You must train the mind to question worldly knowledge. In the end you alone are accountable for the truth that you accept. Kierkegaard challenges us by saying that our subjective decisions will be void of any concrete knowledge and in the end we'll have to make a resolute decision about the core question of life; to believe in God or not to. You cannot have both. It is as standing on a ledge. You either have to commit fully by jumping whole-heartedly over the ledge to cross to the other side, or you decide whole-heartedly to remain on the other side of the ledge. In any event it requires a great amount of faith to make this decision. The Bible also says that if you are Luke-warm  God will spit you out. We cannot find this faith by observing others. It asks that you gather all your courage and make a decision. Your preconceived notions about life, God, humanity have to be forsaken. These pieces of knowledge are but observations of life. It is not the choice that you made.

Soon you will start to think of life as an illusion. The characters around you seem foreign. Ideas seem old and deeds seem but like a routine. The eyes send impulses to the brain and the brain just simply processes words and sight into ideas. If you allow your brain to rule over you, you will be ruled by your circumstances and by observations. The sad part is that the brain has only access to the things it observes. It has missed many things such as other cultural behaviour and norms, other philosophical works, pieces of literature etc. Thus your brain can only process whatever you feed it. The probabilities that you ascribe to events are then biased because your brain has no comprehension of the things it never discovered.

If you constantly feed your brain atheistic literature with very little religious literature your brain will process that information and will most likely accept hypotheses of atheist thinkers. This is usually subject to the well-known confirmation bias literature. Obviously a rational thinker will allow some margin of error of the subjective probabilities but assign a negligible weight to it. The logical thinker might even go as far to say he is open to change as long as new information becomes available. He thus calls himself Bayesian. However, he is fooled since his subjective probability should also be Bayesian. And since he was mainly fed information of one branch of thought, in our example atheism, his subjective prior is subject to large errors for his experience of faith is limited. And since the world is a mystery maybe never to be solved, his subjective prior does him the disservice to truly experience what is called faith.

This is a crisis of thought. We arrive at a crossroads where we have to honestly say that our logic about life is seriously flawed. Any decision about life then seems rather pointless. Our actions are then mere imitations of other's understanding of life. Rather, we should make out our own understanding of life. For me life is about answering one question; do you put your faith in God or do you put it in yourself. We see this question posed right at the very beginning of Genesis where man could either live in line with God's only command or simply put faith in himself. This question will ultimately steer our every step in life.

If your faith is in God you will not be the centre of a story that might have began with you as the centre. No, here you will stand back and make God the main character in this story. Here only God makes sense and any other man made convention falls into obscurity. However, when your faith is put in yourself you remain the centre of the story. You are the only thing that makes sense in this world and no matter what you do, it is the optimal and right thing to do. Since nothing else matters you might as well put a gun to your head and pull the trigger (please don't do this).

To be honest, if we really quiet our minds and let the heart speak we will not be able to deny God. Truth exists. By subjectively looking for it, void of conditional knowledge, you will discover that only God makes sense in a vast universe. In this reality it does not make sense to only half-heartedly follow God. For you to truly grasp, not knowledge but wisdom now, you need to make a leap of faith and commit yourself fully to that decision.