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“Without risk there is no faith. Faith is precisely the contradiction between the infinite passion of the individual’s inwardness and the objective uncertainty. If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.” In this quote, Soren Kierkegaard is saying that Faith is a gut feeling, an emotion, and not an idea, something that comes from the mind, through a thought process. According to Kierkegaard, Faith is the confliction of this gut feeling, that you feel with burning absolution, and the inability to prove the object of your faith. If Kierkegaard is right, then thinking isn’t a part of faith, if you reasoned through your faith you may well come to the conclusion that your faith is unsupported by any knowledge or truths, and that if you were using reason, you would have to abandon your faith. Becau