Theory of Knowledge: Emotion

‘Is faith purely emotional or is it possible to provide a rational justification for religious belief? Is emotion a source of spiritual knowledge?’
Faith, by dictionary definition refers to: confidence or trust in a person or thing, or the belief that is not based on proof, thus by the dictionary definition it refers to the emotion having to be used for someone to believe or have faith within something; in this case religion or a god. Faith is not purely emotional as there exists processes which require the use of perception, language and even reason to provide a rational justification for a religious belief. It is only there to bolster the justification that exists for religious belief, as the other 3 main ways of knowing or justifying knowledge can prove and enforce the justifications for belief.
Examples of reason being used to prove the existence of a religious being, are the scientific searches into the existence of supernatural beings, and the possibility of the engineering of scientific theories such as that of evolution. Along with reason being used to justify religious belief, language is used to convey the messages from a supreme being, examples would be the holy books of the Qur’an and the Bible for the Muslim and Christian faith. Perception is also used for the viewing and execution of religious acts such as circumcisions, and a variety of festivals for the different faiths.
Thus emotion is only a support or a bolster for the existence of religious belief and can justify religious belief as well as the other 3 ways of knowing. But emotion itself does not lead to the existence of spiritual knowledge, it requires all the 3 forms of knowing and them combined will only allow the existence of spiritual knowledge, as with reason, perception, emotion, and language, we can obtain and pursue spiritual knowledge.