2006-08-15 07:55:59 · 27 answers · asked by holyghost130 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A retoirical question! You CAN NOT!
2006-08-15 08:01:22 · update #1
The problem is not the abscence of a "spiritual mind", it's the abscence of the Holy Spirit in the soul. The Bible is written to Believers, the Holy Spirit helps the believer to understand what was written. SO, if you will not believe, you will not understand.
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.
2006-08-15 08:03:33 · answer #1 · answered by R.L. S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The same way a psychiatrist can understand the mentally ill. A lot of research has been conducted to solve the problem of religious mental illness. Consider this ....
Scientists will soon explain why some people are religious and believe in God, and why there’s so much trouble caused in the world by religion. Scientists have already shown that some people carry a "warrior" gene that makes them more prone to violence and criminal acts.
Some people are genetically predisposed to violence and criminal acts, and I believe scientists have also found that some people are genetically predisposed to religious or spiritual acts, but have yet to publish their full findings to avoid a public uproar.
Scientists may well discover that people who are predisposed to the “religious or spiritual” gene are probably more likely to also be predisposed to the “warrior” gene, which would ultimately cause these people to have religious conflicts like crusades and wars. It is already a well known fact that religion is responsible for the majority of wars, conflict and murder of innocent life since humanity began.
Religious people do not understand the question “why” and so God, Religion, the Bible, or whatever, takes over and controls their mind. The trouble with this solution, unlike science, is that anything can be twisted into whatever you wish to believe and therefore is always right. Sadly to say, that’s irrational thought.
However, there must be a rational explanation why religious people act in such an irrational manner, and I think scientists will prove in the near future that it’s all a function of genetic disposition.
2006-08-15 08:00:41 · answer #2 · answered by Brenda's World 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I liked the sheep reply, actually it is relevant. So what you imply is that if you don't believe the dogma put forth in the Bible, one does not have a spiritual mind? That is one of the most ignorant statements you could ever make. So you assume, that Hindus, Muslims, Bahais, Jews, Buddhists, etc don't have spirituality? I have a spiritual mind and a damn good education, and there is plenty in the Bible that does not make sense either historically or scientifically. Most Christians don't believe that there were ever Dinosaurs roaming this planet. They believe that God made man sort of like instant potatoes, and that the world was created a couple of thousand years ago. And you wonder why most of the world shakes their head in dis belief of the simple mindedness of the fundamental Christians.
2006-08-15 08:07:36 · answer #3 · answered by yes_its_me 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So how do you know when you're actually understanding spiritual things in the Bible, versus when you just THINK you understand spiritual things but really aren't understanding them at all?
The two feel very similar. What sort of distinction exists, so that a person might know he's missing something and needs a spiritual transformation?
2006-08-15 08:04:45 · answer #4 · answered by Jennywocky 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What the hell do you mean,any free thinking man has a spiritual mind it's people who have been brainwashed that know nothing of spiritualism that can understand what they have been told is true ,because they are uneducated about such things,they just agree with others order them to believe,get yourself some real education in the matter before you start repeating what others have been repeating for thousands of years
2006-08-15 08:05:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is a collection of writings by mostly unknown people
and very little can be verified as fact and most of that is irrelevant
information like so and so slept with the maid and had so many
kids, etc. If I told you that I was going to save the world - would
you believe me ? Why or Why not?
2006-08-15 08:02:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no inerrant text of The Bible existing today. The only way that The Truth of God's will is revealed is by the leading of The Holy Spirit. The Bible is not intended for the non-believer who is not open to the guidence of God.
The Salvation message in still within most of the english texts that I know of. And that message is open to all who will accept it. At that point of acceptance God will begin to guide the seeker to that of His Word that He has for that seeker. Then, as time developes the understanding of the seeker, more is revealed...
I accept email questions concerning The Christian Faith. Or, you may check me out at:
http://www.mikesoutreach.com
All honest seekers welcome
2006-08-15 08:06:16 · answer #7 · answered by IdahoMike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Almost impossible .When we are baptized we receive the gift of the holy ghost which helps us understand what we read in the bible..so, even if we are spiritually mind it is hard to understand without the gift.
2006-08-15 08:03:12 · answer #8 · answered by brown eyes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same way that someone with a spiritual mind doesn't understand evolution . . . .
2006-08-15 08:03:13 · answer #9 · answered by commonsense 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because spiritual things most of the time have a rational explanation
2006-08-15 08:01:13 · answer #10 · answered by Caveman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋