Why do you think the word "faith" often gets paired with the word "blind"?

If I am physically blind, and you tell me "Don't step there, there's a big hole." I'll believe you. But I can question this by trying to find the hole with my cane, allowing me to actually "see" the hole.

If I am blind with faith, and you tell me "Believe in God, or you'll go to Hell." I'll believe you. But if I question it and go poking around for the truth, I'll find it.

People tend to apply "blind" to the terms love and faith with the misunderstanding that either has to be based exclusively on some emotional response. Interestingly, the Bible does not describe love or faith as being "blind". For example, 1Cor13: 4-8 gives a entire description of love that leaves no room for blind emotion, but rather is full of rational actions that demonstrate love. Similarly, faith is not a blind guide, but according to Heb 11:1 " Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld". So a person having true faith would base his 'assured expectation ' on the ' evident demonstration of realities' that lead him to believe in its future fulfillment. For example, a God-fearing person could logically believe in the fulfillment of future prophecies, based on the fact that past prophecies have been fulfilled.

Conversely, reason and logic can be blind if not tempered with love and faith in God. Both reason and logic are not based on the emotional, so many don't think of these qualities as blind. Yet, reason and logic by themselves tend to lead a person to believe only what is seen with his own eyes. For example, a person rationalizes from the fact that he cannot see God, and comes to the hasty conclusion that there must not be a God that exists. Or a person may reject anything that cannot be scientifically proven. That leaves a void for the vast amounts of answers that cannot be satisfied with a scientific explanation.

You're mentionning common expressions.

The fact its common does not mean its to be accepted.

Blind faith has been so common, some think that's the only kind of faith there is.

Hebrews 11:1 gives the proper definition of faith and it has nothing to to with blindness.

BTW Blind love is dangerous love.

If I were a believer, blind faith, to me, would be a compliment.

It stresses the concept that something with no tangible, physical evidence can be believed in to such a degree.

blind reason and logic would simply not exist

Because the very definition of faith is "strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof". If you don't have proof, to think that something is true is a blind proposition. Emotion has the tendency to override reason in those that harbor it.

Faith is evidence only love is blind.Now blind faith is a misnomer.However they were one of my favorite rock bands years ago db

Blind faith is like saying crunchy apple.

**blind reason or blind logic....have you heard of an oxymoron?

Because so few people realize that true faith is NOT the same as credulity.

TRUE FAITH is fact based, as defined in the Bible. Note Hebrews 11:1, NWT: "Faith is the ASSURED EXPECTATION of things hoped for, the EVIDENT DEMONSTRATION OF REALITIES though not beheld."

In other words, faith is based on expectation of future fulfillment of God's promises due to the fact his past promises have all come true.

"Not a promise failed out of all the good promise that Jehovah had made to the house of Israel; it all came true." - Joshua 21:45.

"Now, look! I am going today in the way of all the earth, and you well know with all your hearts and with all your souls that not one word out of all the good words that Jehovah your God has spoken to you has failed. They have all come true for you. Not one word of them has failed." - Joshua 23:14.

"Blessed be Jehovah, who has given a resting-place to his people Israel according to all that he has promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise that he has promised by means of Moses his servant." - 1 Kings 8:56.

Because some people think that they are know-it-alls and never look in a dictionary to discover that in order to function normally in daily life that they too have to have faith.

Because sometimes the faith that people have is faith in illogical nonsense.