Faith and reason walk hand in hand in those "Born Again" of The SPIRIT that IS TRUTH! (John 3:3, I Peter 1:23, Ps 31:5)

Someone testified: "Faith Versus Reason!" "Do Faith and rationality run parallel in us"? 

Then they set about to prove their understanding of such.

And i responded (with additional testimony as well):

Quite simple to use two words and then, liken unto this world and/or religion's way, apply what you believe they mean to them! And then with "good words and fair speech" seek to 'con'vince others, that in accordance with your understanding (of that which is of your "imag"ination, or your favorite dictionary) they should follow your "way to the truth of life" as you have "imag"ined it...... In rote only! (Romans 16:18, II Corinthians 10:5, Romans 1:21, John 14:6)

First! it must be determined what "reason" and "Faith" Truly are. Not in accordance with the perverseness of this day and age, but in accordance with that which has stood the test of time. Such IS SPIRIT!

And one needs receive "a love of The TRUTH to be saved" from a souls own "imag"ined self ("I", ego, id, pride)! ( II Thessalonians 2:10-13)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2013/05/one-needs-receive-love-of-truth-to-be.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-must-die.html

Simply True "Faith and Reason" are not of one's "imag"ination, for such is REALized(experienced) by those "Born Again" of The SPIRIT that IS TRUTH! (John 3:3,7, I Peter 1:23, II Thessalonians 2:10-13, II Corinthians 10:5, Romans 1:21)

Yet "reason' has become but a playground for the one's "educated" in those institutions of low-life learning established by those of this world and/or religion's way! Those whose god is but the "colored marks written on a dead tree and bound in fabrication", both "biblical" and otherwise....... For atheists see their version of a god each and every time they view their reflected "image"!
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/10/all-so-called-biblical-translations-are.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2012/03/atheists-so-called-are-some-of-most.html

And today, as in yesterdays past, those "institutions of low-life learning" are ruled over by the same so-called "intellectual" and/or the religious ones who established such! Ruled over by those who "love this evil world and their own life in and of it", most of whom "evermore seek to increase in riches" and/or "knowledge falsely so-called"! Sadly, they have so perverted the truth, "The Way of TRUTH is evil spoken of"! (John 7:7; 12:25, I John 2:15-17, James 4:4, Psalms 73:12, I Timothy 6:20-21, II Peter 2:1-3)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/10/because-of-religions-way-way-of-truth.html

Simply, apart from Faith, "The substance (the actual matter of a thing, ie: experience, The TRUTH) of things hoped (not realized by the natural man) for, and the evidence (miracles, healing, revelation, visions) of things not seen (by the natural eye)"! (Hebrews 11:1)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/07/thankfully-faith-wins-victory-i-john-54.html

Apart from the "substance" and "evidence" of a Living Faith, "reason" remains but another word for "imag"ination! (II Corinthians 10:5, Romans 1:21)

Thankfully a Living Faith IS of The SPIRIT, Spiritual! And IS Heavenly and Eternal.......

So it is, that for The Faithful, gray has become our least favorite color, our own 'self("I",ego,id,pride)life' and 'thoughts' the enemy, and so we 'see' the world and/or religion today as it is! Of "the father of lies", he who is "the god of this world"!
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-whole-world-not-just-portion-is.html

An evil world which is composed of the wicked and evil creations that emanate from mankind's "imag"ination (the "thinker" way)! (John 8:44, II Corinthians 4:4, John 7:7, I John 2:15-17; 5:19, James 4:4, Romans 1:21, II Corinthians 10:5, II Timothy 3:13, Isaiah 65:2)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/10/thinker-or-receiver.html

Sadly! the "imag"inations of those worldly and/or religiously educated "mindful" "thinkers" are used by "the father of lies" in the destruction of Creation (air, water, land, vegetation, creatures) and perversion of that which is Spirit (Truth, Light, Life, Love, Peace, Faith, Grace, Mercy, Hope,,,,,,, ALL that is Truly GOOD)!
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2009/07/simply-progress-so-called-is-destroying.html
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2012/10/taking-bait-and-lies-are-swallowed-hook.html

It is as Mahatma Gandhi prophetically testified, "“GOD forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If India took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts”.......
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2015/07/earth-provides-enough-to-satisfy-every.html

And he testified, "If i preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go to the simple life epitomized in the "charka(spinning wheel)", i do so because i know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our descent to a state lower than brutality"!

Sadly, such is evermore proven to be of The TRUTH!

"Come out from among them and be separate!" (II Corinthians 6:17)

For a simple and Spiritual Life IS The Life! Such was revealed in both The Life and The Teachings of The Messiah, and one needs REALize that The Messiah received both His Life and His Teachings from Our FATHER and GOD! (John 5:19,30; 8:28-29; 7:16; 12:49-50; 14:10,23-24; 17:8,14)

And the brethren of The Messiah have REALized how "poor and in need" of Our FATHER we Truly are, for liken unto The Messiah we have also REALized, "i can do nothing of my own self"! (Psalms 70:5; 72:13, John 5:19,30; 8:28-29; 20:17)
http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-messiah-testified-i-can-do-nothing.html

So it is, we "cry unto Our FATHER and GOD day and night"....... (Luke 18:7)

Evermore sounding and resounding a Declaration of Dependence:

FATHER Help!

HE DID! and HE does......

So Thankfully, "The Peace that surpasses ALL understanding" IS! in spite of the dis-ease (no-peace) that is of this evil world and/or religion's way....... (Philippians 4:7, John 14:27; 7:7, I John 2:15-17;5:19, James 1:27; 4:4)

ALL Thanks and Praise Be Unto Our FATHER(TRUTH, SPIRIT, CREATOR, GOD, LORD, MASTER, LIGHT, LOVE, LIFE,,,,,,, ALL IN ALL that which IS Truly GOOD)! (John 20:17; 14:28, Mark 10:18)