Faith and Reason

Theism represents a belief that embraces confidence in God and a very personal, emotional commitment. But theism also embraces an intellectual engagement. Each belief builds upon certain basic notions about God. For example, it could include ideas about the nature or character of God or what God intends for all creation. These are concepts that believers consider true and therefore meaningful.

All world religions acknowledge that there isn't just an emotional basis for faith but also an intellectual basis. When a believer asserts his/her faith, he/she also tries to support his/her religious ideas intellectually and rationally. This is of great importance in that faith provides the believer with a moral foundation for how one should live.

Reason has a central function in all spiritural seeking. One wants to believe in something that is sensible, meaningful and true. Those who reject reason in relation to religion forget that they themselves used reason to obtain their faith.

In theism, God is a spiritual entity which is morally perfect, omnipotent, and omniscient.
God is the one who has created everything and the disciplinarian of all creation. Furthermmore, God is eternal, constant and worthy of worship.

Is it sensible for an intellectual, honorable, morally decent person to believe in such a description of God?

Those who read this question may perhaps already have a decided answer. But regardless of what that answer is, I would like to emphasize a number of problems that arise when one carefully examines the characteristics that theism's theologians have attributed to God for hundreds of years.