Where did I say that we can please him without faith? Christianity is a faith based system. My point is that there are many sources which validate what we have faith in thus giving us more of an ability to provide a defense of our faith. Your comments about human emotions vs the fruit of the spirit seems out of place to the discussion. I don't disagree with your assertion that feelings like happiness or euphoria are not the same as joy and peace. However, God gave us brains with the capacity for executive functioning which has allows us not only to exercise our free will, but to contact God albeit on an imperfect level. The Bible is an example of contacting God intellectually. Nature and science are other examples. God's creation and His Word are evidences of His existence. Simply telling someone they should believe without the ability to provide reasons why or the ability to answer their questions is lazy and in conflict with Paul's instruction to be prepared to give a defense of our faith.
I am done here brother, You continually seek to quantify the spiritual with carnal means. You never contact God through your intellect, you do so through your Spirit.
For the record ,Faith is not lazy, Faith takes work..a lot of very hard work. God gave us brains, and then said to renew your brains, be a partaker of the divine nature, and be conformed into he image of his son...you do not do any of these through carnal sense knowledge or human intellect. You must put off the old man and put on the new, you are a Spirit ebing, that has a soul[mind, will and emotions] that lives in a body[flesh]
The word tells us to let our soul be subject to our spirit man and the flesh will then obey the dominate of those 2. Your questions show you to be a babe, might I recommend goign over the milk of the word , for you ask things only meat eaters will understand.
You need to stop attempting to understand spiritual things with your natural man and grow up spiritually and begin letting your spirit compare things that are spiritual.
you should read all of 1 cor 2
And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. [SUP]2 [/SUP]For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
[SUP]5 [/SUP]That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
[SUP]7 [/SUP]But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
[SUP]8 [/SUP]Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
[SUP]9 [/SUP]But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
[SUP]10 [/SUP]But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
[SUP]11 [/SUP]For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
[SUP]12 [/SUP]Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
[SUP]13 [/SUP]Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
[SUP]14 [/SUP]But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
[SUP]15 [/SUP]But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
[SUP]16 [/SUP]For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.