[blue-duncan]

"I have no proof that the Bible is a revelation of God. I believe that it is, but the basis of my belief is completely irrational , as all beliefs are." I would hope what you mean is the basis of your belief is non-rational, as in intuition, not irrational.

[kosta50]

I would hope what you mean is the basis of your belief is non-rational, as in intuition, not irrational

You know, on the surface it certainly seems that way, but then God is definitely not something intuitive. Intuition is "knowledge" of the gnostic type, but does not necessarily lead to truth.

If God were something intuitive, we wouldn't need His revelation.

If God were something we can comprehend (by reason alone), than he wouldn't be God.

God is neither intuitive nor rational. Our faith in God defies reason because we believe in an eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, transcendental, unchanging, simple, trinitarian monad!, who is both God and man, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, One God, undivided!, incomprehensible, who is here and everywhere, without a beginning and without an end, the creator of everything and all, both visible and invisible, complete (perfect), uncircumscribed, etc, etc. etc. none of which is intuitive or something reason can grasp.

"Faith" founded on reason is naked rationalism. The Russian Orthodox Catechism says it this way about our ascent to God via apophatic (negative) statements (i.e. unimaginable, invisible, unlimited...etc. about God), with my emphases:

The way of negation corresponds to the spiritual ascent into the Divine abyss where words fall silent, where reason fades, where all human knowledge and comprehension cease, where God is. It is not by speculative knowledge but in the depths of prayerful silence that the soul can encounter God, Who is ‘beyond everything’...

...including reason.