Is it not possible that you arrive at faith through reasoning.
As I take the meaning of the word 'faith', no. If you mean by 'reasoning' evidence based reasoning. I've been lead to understand that faith is exactly what you believe without evidence or reasoning to it. You accept something because you, personally believe it not because anything has demonstrated to you that it is true.
Tell me if this assuption is correct. Most "non-believers"(for lack of a better term) have problems with the bible, not God. Christians who take the Bible literally, without reasoning make most here upset.
Is that a correct statement?
The first part is partiall correct for some and very incorrect for others. Some here that disagree with literalists still have no problem with the Bible and in fact are devote Christians. However, it is the literal interpretations that many here, both believers and not, have a big problem with.
Even then most of us have little problem with the literal interpretations until the fundamentalists start to try to damage science education based on that.
To go further, What do you think of a person who believes in God, the virgin birth, and the 2nd coming of Christ but thinks the Bible includes many truths, but also many stories that support God and Jesus teachings but may or may not be 100% accurate.
I don't have a problem with that. I don't see how one can expect such stories to get the history and very especially any natural facts anywhere near 100% accurate. I don't see why it matters if those parts aren't accurate.
The majority of Christians fall into this group and some are friends and family to me. Why should I have any problem? What I think is that they are the Christians with real faith and don't need natural evidence to suport their faith unlike those with a weaker "faith" that need concrete support. I think the majority of Christians are the ones who really know what the intended message of the Bible is. I think the creationists (as the term is usually used) are the ones who have some sort of exaggerated worship of the Bible itself. It seems to be some sort of warped, misplaced devotion.
Those that think that if the Bible isn't 100% true it is all wrong are on very shakey theological ground and seem to be just asking for the kind of attacks by atheists that we see here. In fact, they seem to be intent on handing the weapons to the atheists to attack Christianity. Very odd that is.
Common sense isn't