Faith

Faith is a way of knowing. This is not a definition. But I believe that this statement is true. Some thing's cannot be known through any material faculties we may possess as human beings. An example being our faculty for conceptual thinking, abstract thinking, as well as sense reception. Some things enter our conscience only by revelation. And though it may appear to be a rational thought, it may not fit within any rational schema that we've adopted, not to say that it cannot be rationalized, but at what risk?
Rationalizing a thought that's realm of knowing is faith is like eating soup with fork. It's not a tool incapable of performing the task, but is highly inadequate. Perhaps there are things that we can't understand by neither by the senses, nor any other material faculty. What's scary is that we seem to have the propensity as people to make ourselves believe that an explanation is true as long is its logical. And even though we all freely admit that logical does not equal true, we never entertain the idea that illogical does sometime mean true. Of course as I have left that statement, it is not true. But that's because we've eliminated a third category. Something that is illogical cannot be true. But something that is not logical may not be illogical, it may be something that logic cannot contain. This does not necessarily mean that this knowledge is inaccessible, it means simply that logic is not the door to that knowledge. I would say that faith is. Faith is response to revelation. Revelation is pre-logical, or "alogical", God reserves the right to blow up our categories, which if we're honest, is what the whole realm of logic is, a human, thus finite category. How else do we explain the righteousness of Abraham in sacrificing his son, God sacrificing his son, election? God asks Abraham to do something that if any of us asked our friends to do, they would cease to be our friend. He treats his own son in a matter that would get us as parents put away for life, but yet he is righteous. We cannot believe this using human reason. We can rationalize it, justify it, but even after all this we cannot escape the simple fact that God sanctioned the brutal death of his own son, and demanded the blood of the son of promise from Abraham.
Maybe our ability to reason falls short,. Maybe it's not that God is irrational, maybe the problem is our finiteness, but if we're so unable to know everything, how do we know what we can know? I assert that we can know all there is to know, but not all things through our material faculties. We must also appeal to faith, which may at times conflict what our reason,instincts, or faculties tell us, and when this happens... Faith wins, and if you're wrong, well if you have faith this is obviously an impossibility, but what is faith without the risk?