If a benevolent God gave us essentially one tool--the mind--to use on Earth, then how could He make throwing it away (i.e. having faith) the one prerequisite for eternal salvation?
2006-07-08 14:08:07 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I see where you're going with this! If you ask in earnest and are not just looking for an argument then I'd love to answer your question!
First of all I disagree with you on God giving us one tool to use on earth...if He gave us any certain number of tools it is my belief that there would be three: 1)Heart 2)Mind 3)body. None of them are any good without the other yet you need all three to function! A lot of times our heart tell us to do one thing and our body or mind tells us to do something completely different. Faith comes from the heart and that's where God wants to be. It makes perfect sense for God to use faith as the key to salvation; the heart is the most difficult part of our being to control making it the ultimate sacrifice.
I can see the clouds of dust and the blazing torches as angred scientist and theologians alike set off to hunt me down! lol
2006-07-08 14:41:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I happen to think that God blessed us with many tools besides our minds. He blessed us with our senses of touch, smell, sight, etc. He blessed us with so many things that there is not enough room here to get started.
I happen to think that having faith is one thing that I can't understand a person being without.
I remember how empty my life seemed and then I accepted Jesus and my life could not be any fuller.
Jesus loves you no matter that you claim not to love Him. I don't believe for a minute that you are actually an infidel. I pray that you will give Jesus a chance before it is too late. See what Jesus can do for you. Satan will always take you back.
2006-07-08 14:17:03 · answer #2 · answered by racam_us 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
doesn't that seem like the ultimate test to you? be given a gift that you can only use to further your faith? which is only an argument to your question. the reality is you don't have to throw away the mind for salvation either. I'd have to say a lot of Scientists are religious. I myself am a member of Mensa and going to school for chemical engineering and I'm a very faithful person.
2006-07-08 14:13:59 · answer #3 · answered by God's Servant 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having faith is not throwing your mind away...Where did you ever get the idea that God wanted you to throw your mind away in the first place. That is the last thing he wants... He wants you to use it to follow his plan for your life. God is good and does nothing but love you...he wants happiness for your life. Why would anyone not want to follow Him and have faith if that is what he promises. Remember that you belong to him because he created you...your life is not your own.
2006-07-08 14:31:20 · answer #4 · answered by dandylion 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mind isn't our only tool; He gave us a conscience as well, a spiritual compass that TELLS us how to act as God commands. Unfortunately for us, seeing as how we all sin, we forfeit the right to go to heaven; the evidence of God's existence isn't left to faith, it's apparent through reason, but because we no longer have a right to heaven, we have to take a leap of faith; we have to believe what Jesus told us even though we can't ever KNOW it to be true. Reason can give us a lot of LIKELIHOOD that God would do that because of His nature, but faith is still necessary.
2006-07-08 14:18:36 · answer #5 · answered by C_Bass 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He gave us a mind so that we can make choices for ourselves. It's up to each of us to make our own choices in this life. We have tools of learning at our disposal and he will lead us in the right path if we want him to. He will not force anyone to come back to him. That was the devils plan and he is doing a good job at deceiving many people. If you don't want to go back to him that is your choice but the only other choice is living with the devil for eternity. I choose to not have to go through that and to love God.
2006-07-08 14:21:18 · answer #6 · answered by # one 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HE gave you a choice, free will. It's up to you to make the right or wrong choices. Faith is believing without actually seeing. What is oxygen? You can't see it, smell it, or taste it. But you have enough faith in it to know you need it. Right??? Next time you go swimming and you stay under water too long, coming up gasping for something you can't see, smell, nor taste....... Faith is not (thrown away), it's a conscious choice we make.
2006-07-08 14:15:22 · answer #7 · answered by nytrauma911 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't give up your day job, your logic still needs some brushing up. Faith isn't throwing your mind away but aligning our minds with His. Follow His word carefully, have the mind of Christ and you as well will be one of His!
2006-07-08 15:23:51 · answer #8 · answered by evbillysunday 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no having faith does not do away with the mind, it allows to to know alot more and understand life in ways non beleivers could never do.
Why would a person who was given a mind, decide to waste it on unbeleif is what is hard to understand
2006-07-08 14:28:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
From my book "The Plain truth About God-101" (what the church doesn't want you to know)
** "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
-- Voltaire (1694-1778)
2006-07-08 14:24:35 · answer #10 · answered by Moses 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋