Solving pseudographic proofs; rule 2: where reason fails, faith's edifice begins

But the mode of solving pseudographic proofs is not one. For sometimes they are solved by applying a sound interpretation of the principles and showing the sinister application to the proposed question; sometimes by denial or even by opposing true principles from diverse Scripture places that agree best among themselves, and by showing the harmony and connection which, agreeably to the nature of the words and things signified, confirms the truer sentence and is destroyed and weakened by the weaker; sometimes by some limitation and distinction; sometimes even by deduction to absurdity, which rests on the negative principle of contradiction and has the greatest force for vigorously weakening such proofs and whatever conflicts with the articles of faith — as may be seen in 1 Corinthians 15, where the Apostle leads those denying the resurrection of the dead to as many absurdities as possible.

2. Where reason fails, there faith's edifice begins. Divine mysteries are not to be pried into, but to be wondered at. Hence St. Athanasius to Serapion: The knowledge of God, he says, is to be comprehended by faith, not sought out by human reason. Let faith preside; let reason sit under.