Appeal to Faith

Description

This is an abandonment of reason in an argument and a call to faith, usually when reason clearly leads to disproving the conclusion of an argument. It is the assertion that one must have (the right kind of) faith in order to understand the argument. 

http://www.logicallyfallacious.com/index.php/logical-fallacies/31-appeal-to-faith

Logical Form:

X is true.
If you have faith, you will see that.

Example #1:

Jimmie: How can you possibly associate gentle Jesus with the same God who says, “I will make my arrows drunk with blood, while my sword devours flesh: the blood of the slain and the captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”? (Deuteronomy 32:42)

Hollie: You are trying to interpret those words through your carnal mind. You need to read those words through the eyes of faith.

Jimmie: What does that even mean?

Hollie: If you had faith, you would understand.

Explanation: There are some things, some believe, that are beyond reason and logic. Fair enough, but the moment we accept this, absent of any objective method of telling what is beyond reason and why, anything goes. Anything can be explained away without having to explain anything.

Example #2:

There is the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Therefore there must be a God.
You either see this one or you don't.

Explanation: The reason why the music of Bach proves the existence of God is not given, other than to imply that if you can't see the reason why, you must be deficient in some way. This is the premise of The Emperor's New Clothes - Only a fool can't see the Emperor's fine clothes (which in reality don't exist). So this example not only calls to faith it also has a side order of ad hominem.