Logic v/s Faith

There is amazing amount of confusion how logic relates to faith. This question often arises when we challenge the conception of GOD.
  Logic is the study of the principles of reasoning, principles governing the validity of arguments basically your intellect whereas faith is a confidence or trust in trustworthiness of a conception, in simple words what you feel at heart which is beyond rationality.
  I always believed there are two kinds of people, those who believe in GOD (Theists) and those who do not (Atheist), but then i observed the third kind which surprisingly holds the majority, those who believe in GOD but live as if they do not. They usually vacillate dallying with the superiority of either faith or logic and take the lead in the battle of wits.

  Question is, does the existence of one challenge the other, does the one subordinate the other, does the one presuppose the other, which one is greater. Lets ponder on this.

  Logic and faith both are powerful enough to bring catastrophes or harmony in the world. Both are two different worlds, quite exclusive to each other. Being humans we are equipped with the rational power and obviously rationalized things are weighed more than the things which are founded only on faith. So which is greater? Well Still tough to decide!!!

  Thinking logic alone can gain faith of somebody is like convincing someone that something is beautiful. Lets consider a situation that you visited Rajasthan and actually liked the barren sand dunes in the deserts. Would logic convince your friend that the deserts are beautiful. certainly not. We all love our parents but have your parents ever tried to make you believe how much they love you by logic and reasoning? You just feel the affection of your loved ones and have faith in the same.
  Some of the most beautiful things of the world like Love, Care, Beauty and even GOD transcend logic. No one can even think of attempting a logical proof of all this, If one does he will be far from understanding them. These things are perceived by something more than our minds. Can someone claim that watching travel documentaries brings the same excitement as by actually going somewhere and doing some adventure. Accepting the superiority of logic over faith is like making someone taste the sweets by explanations and logic.

  Logic even sometimes makes apriori assumptions and tells us to take certain things on faith. We say 'testability is truth' but its again based on faith. Irony is, Its an untestable assumption that testable is true. When Einstein gave his Relativity Theory and claimed that an object travelling with the speed of light will have an infinite mass, many people agreed and hailed him but again this involves a little bit of faith. Faith on him, faith on mathematics. As there is no possible way to detect a case which can prove this.

  As per Holy Bible:
"Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."

Fear from truth causes unbelievers to use their intellect in rejecting it. It seems reasoning for doing evil is the consequence and not the cause.

  For those who only like to think rationally, existence of GOD, Love, Care and Beauty can never be logically proven to someone who doesn't want to believe it. You cannot get at a clear conception of God by speculation, or by thinking about Him or about what He is in Himself. Lay hold of the clue of His acts, and it leads you straight into His heart. They say GOD exists only in the brains of Humans, I say HE exists in the hearts. Ultimate choices should not only be of mind alone but also of heart. In the world of faith your deepest emotions are your compass to let you navigate through it and consequently these convictions don't need the base of logic .
Well both have their own system of reasoning but In brief  logic can not stand without the support of faith instead Faith accompanied by Logic holds universal acceptance.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             - Saurabh

"The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people,but because of the silence of good people."