2006-11-07 18:14:26 · 23 answers · asked by verycantankerous 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'd say yes to that one.
2006-11-07 18:17:36 · answer #1 · answered by margo 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I pretty much have a hardwired belief in God, which I'm thankful for because I don't think I could make it past God's special-ed PR people otherwise. No surprise to me that you atheists are totally turned off.
Alot of Christians are biblical literalists, I certainly had to leave that behind, probably around the 6th grade. But critical thinking just makes God bigger and more interesting than the guy in the long white beard who does magic tricks that the literalists hang with.
As far as a critical thinking person raised an atheist becoming a believer. Doable. CS Lewis was atheist into his 20's I believe. But he got to have conversations with smarter Christians than the ones making all the noise today.
Bottom line. Either you believe that given enough time, cosmic dust will become orderly, forming stars planets, oceans, elephants and owls. Or you believe it is as likely that if enough tornadoes blow through a junk yard you will end up with a perfect and fully assembled United Airlines Boeing 747. I just don't have enough faith to believe that.
I think 'at the very least' the intelligent force we call God at the moment when he created the universe with the big bang endowed this universe with a blueprint.
Besides, I like the whole idea of worshiping a god.
2006-11-08 02:59:20 · answer #2 · answered by hankthecowdog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You asked the IQ question.
No I don't ignore my critical thinking skills. I have thought it through thouroughly.
What do you exactly want to know... What doesn't make sense?
To me, my God is so big, he can do anything, some things I suppose are out of the realms of reasoning, but that's when you get in to finding out who God is and what he is all about.
2006-11-08 02:21:57 · answer #3 · answered by Abbasangel 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not agree that God who gave us the capacity for critical thinking skill, i.e. to reason, intends that we forgo its use under whatever circumstance. Reason, to my mind is our best guide and the only real oracle of man. Believing in God, therefore, is not incompatible with reason, or else try the other side of the coin and judge for yourself how compatible with critical faculty this is!
2006-11-08 02:44:46 · answer #4 · answered by Akimbo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. For example (and in love), I point out that the correct spelling of the word is b e l i e v e.
"But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty"
1 Corinthians 1:27
2006-11-08 02:22:59 · answer #5 · answered by Sister Christian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Believing God is a spiritual experience. It is the Holy Spirit who convicts you of your need for Jesus to save you from sin and to give you eternel life. Believe in God is a matter of the heart or spirit and not of the mind. Believing in the head or mind will not make you truly born-again. Your thinking alone critical or otherwise will not lead to true faith or belief in God.
2006-11-08 02:24:38 · answer #6 · answered by seekfind 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. glory of God is intelligence. sometimes people don't comprehend what God can comprehend and we need to have faith in Him who knows all. The proof comes only after the trial of our faith. However, we receive sure knowledge that God is real through spiritual experiences, by praying or reading the scriptures,our hearrt begins to burn inside and we feel warm and our mind begins to expand and we understand His ways. If you look at the planet and all things in it, everything denotes that there's a Supreme Creator and there are many prophets who testify of God.
2006-11-08 02:21:42 · answer #7 · answered by Sailormoon 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Friend, i have tried butIi do not have enough faith to be an atheist,
(a-theist, meaning "without God")
when i see the incredible intricacies of an atom,
an eagle in flight,
the symmetrical structure of a skeleton,
and the synchroniss, systematic precision of the solar system and universe.
Not enough faith to believe it was an Oopsy-Daisy accident from Absolutely nothing.
God cries out to us through his beautiful creation, screaming Look what i have made, to show you who i am!!
Return to me, call on me while i may be found.
2006-11-08 02:56:56 · answer #8 · answered by Dr. Phil 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. You need your critical thinking skills to work your way through life and its changes.
2006-11-08 02:19:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, it would be ignorant to do that. God gave us brains to us and thinking skills with them brains so why would anyone want to ignore them to believe in God.
2006-11-08 02:21:29 · answer #10 · answered by The Nameless One 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, but you do have to ignore the obvious to not believe in him.
Here's the 'Big Bang' in a nutshell:
'Nothing existed... and then it exploded.
Let's try using our critical thinking skills on this one.
2006-11-08 02:17:56 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋