Is faith a reliable path to knowledge?

This would be illumination, not faith.

Again and more clearly :
Faith is a concept, like infinity, and this type of concept do not exist in the real world.
There is an idea of infinity but no actual infinity.
There is an idea of faith but no actual faith.
Do anyone ever seen someone whos faith is 100% without knowledge ???
No... but yes if the knowledge we talk about is illumination, so no faith, religious or not, here.

Therefore we quantitize actual faith, saying per example that someone has a strong or weak faith.
What is this other concept that can be lowered (lowering faith is a nonsense) ? This is the actual faith.
So the possible formula to express this clearly : Actual faith = a * faith + (1-a) * knowledge
(a is the ratio of the use of faith or knowledge)

But faith = 1 (it is a constant, not like knowledge)
So
Actual faith = a + (1-a) * knowledge

Therefore 2 extrem cases (intermediate cases exists too because a is between 0 and 1) :
If a=0 : I dont depend on faith
=> Actual faith = Knowledge

If a=1 : I only depend on faith (so actual faith = faith)
=> Actual faith = 1

Simple enought to understand i suppose.

Other possible formulas :
Actual faith = a * (1 - knowledge) + knowledge
Actual faith = a * (Ignorance) + knowledge

 

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Really?
Then why the word faith?

Drivel.

Anyone/ everyone who believes in a god. NO ONE has actual knowledge of god (any god). Yet may people believe regardless. Many people have faith that he/ she/ it exists.

This is, in its entirety, utter nonsense.

 

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Yes, i just did the (obvious) demonstration.

Because you can have more or less faith, but not 100% (in my example a=1 is the limit never atteined)
100%=1

Why ? Whats your agument (is your believe based on knowledge or faith this would be wrong) ?

Other example :
Pain.
Pain is a concept.
Saying i have pain doesent say anything about actual pain.
You must define the intensity a
Actual pain = a * pain

Thats exactly what i said.
Formula explain it more accuratly, if Knowlege = 100% faith=0%
100% faith = Illumination so 0% Knowledge

No, this is rational thinking.
If yout think something is wrong, say what is wrong and explain why.

 

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Ummm no. PAIN is a sense(ation)

A UNPLEASANT sensation

When I trained as a Registered Nurse I learnt that pain severity was measured in *dols. If memory serves me correctly a 1cm pad was applied to the back of the hand and heated. The person was required to indicate when they felt a change in temperature (1 dol)

There is a well known pain relief medication which uses the Greek word for pain - pónos - and the measurement - dol

PANADOL

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*Edit sold to dols - piss poor proof read

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Big confusion here.
No, pain is the word used to represent the concept pain and the concept pain (here in the case of pain, this is not a generality) is relevant to "something" (never really known, you know the platos cave...) correlated with a set of properties and atributes that can be observed (So we can speak about with intersubjectivity)
So per example and not only, pain has the atribute to be part of the category sensation.

Yes, this is what i say, and i used this qualia to show that even we can not mesure something precisely, we can talk
about his intensity.
So for faith, there are many intensities of faith we can not mesure but we can speak of the intensity.

 

Subjectively

Sorry about the boo boo *sold was a auto correct I should have caught and corrected back to dols before posting

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By around 1990 I began to pray and ask for wisdom with rather extreme chutzpah......
I even was EXTREMELY RUDE to Messiah Yeshua - Jesus and to the Ancient of Days the Father...
Thirty one years later and I honestly feel that ALL of my question from back in those days have been answered......
and ninety five or more percent of the answers really surprised me and were not what I could have guessed back in 1988 or 1989!

I did have at least some faith....
and I feel that my prayers for Wisdom... ( partly so that I would not go through life and end up giving really awful advice as I had so
often seen done by some pastors..... on some occasions..... would be an error that I would make some progress in avoiding)! I also learned to qualify my assertions and be far less dogmatic even when I get into a topic that I have investigated thoroughly.

 

This does: http://sciforums.com/threads/is-faith-a-reliable-path-to-knowledge.152142/page-39#post-3667238

 

Faith isn't about knowledge. It's about belief in what you don't actually know.

Ever try to assemble some purchased product without reading the instructions?

 

Often it's about trying to circumvent actual knowledge - e.g. creationism is an attempt to put faith before evidence.

Always.

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The microwave stand. The tabletop barbecue, The floor lamp. To this day, I've never seen the instructions for any of them.