Well I literally wrote down my thoughts… as I was thinking them. I’m trying to work out my thoughts about faith and reasoning. I’m still real lost trying to sort it out, but this blog is me attempting to think it through nonetheless.
So I was getting a little confused trying to follow the class discussion. I suppose the idea that faith and reason or intellect not being connected doesn’t make sense to me. I think that the ability to reason makes faith that much more valid… I’m getting stuck trying to process my thoughts right now… but okay In the Bible when it says “Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind’”. (That phrase is found in Matthew 22:37, and in Luke 10:27) With all your mind… I read that and maybe it is off base but I do think it does mean with your ability to reason. I don’t see how faith can be separated from ones intellect. I don’t really believe that people can be separated from their reason… no matter the situation one’s ability to reason is always a part of them. To separate that from faith would seem to me to be causing a divide of self… and when you think about it oneself is their only real means of sacrifice to God (maybe that’s not phrase right but I’m thinking Romans 12:1 and the whole idea of offering oneself as a living sacrifice). But maybe when we talk about faith and reason it’s not really about separating faith and reason but sacrificing the ability to reason in the sense that you accept what can’t be rationally explained. So this is where I’m at now…
Faith and intellect can’t be separated because one’s mind is so much a part of them that the separation of the two creates a divide of self… but when the Bible talks about living sacrifice that includes the mind, right? If so then yes Love God with your mind but still give up the ability to reasonably rationalize the divine because first of all it’s impossible and secondly because the mind is included when God calls us to sacrifice ourselves…
Ps. Wrote on Jannah’s post questioning assassination.
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