If God wanted me to believe in him, why did he give me common sense and clear thinking at a young age?

Answer 1

Uh Oh...Maybe he made a mistake...no wait..he is perfect...oh wait....Maybe he did it on purpose so you could burn in hell!...wait wait wait...he is all merciful....hmmm....You got me.

Answer 2

Clear thinking and common sense is a blessing from God. Also every person born into this world has seen the true light. So, also every person has a God given conscience. Also, everyone is born with the sin nature with a tendency to rebel against the true light. That is what causes spiritual blindness.

Faith comes by hearing, and hearing a Word about Christ / God.

Answer 3

What does your clear thinking believe in.

That if you buy some electronic parts at Radio Shack, put them in a box, give it to apes in a Zoo and see that they shake this box for 1 billion years that eventually an Xbox will appear inside?!

That is the RANDOMIST scientific view, which Einstein didn't favor.

How can ANYONE with ANY common sense believe that a galactic chain reaction can RANDOMLY create a MULTITUDE of life forms on a given planet.

What are the rational LAS VEGAS odds of that!

Please RATIONALLY explain how:

How did the Photosynthetic Reaction Center develop? How did intramolecular transport start? How did cholesterol biosynthesis begin? How did retinal become involved in vision? How did phosphoprotein signaling pathways develop?

Please explain how these RANDOMLY occurred.

Explain how RANDOM events happen.

Explain how RANDOM electrons do all this marvelous stuff and site some Scientific PROOFS.

Show how SCIENCES has OBSERVERED and DOCUMENTED RANDOM events like these occuring.

I still get headaches working on Page 1 of Einsteins realtivity book.

I have NO idea what he's talking about on Page 1.

I have no idea, NOR has anyone defined for me, the 11 Dimensions that are supposed to exist beyond the 3 I phsyically know and the 4th that Einstein and Hawkings talk about, which I can basically see to a degree.

I can even see Einsteins' point that a brick can FALL UPWARDS.

I still have a hard time with his curved universe theory and how if we shoot a ship straight up it comes back to the earth in a few trillion years.

I sort of see that wil gravity wells and bending star light patterns and how we can't quite navigate if we don't see the stars where they are supposed to be because of these graviy wells.

Did you know two scientists established that MEASURE ERROR TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION we are MOTIONLESS, which means the universe revolves around us and they won a NOBLE PRIZE for this work!

Scientis proved the anceint Catholic theories of Earth as stationary and the center of the universe!

And you BUY into their stuff!

That make COMMON SENSE TO YOU!

The Earth is THOUGHT to spin at 2,000 miles per hour. The earth is THOUGHT to move around the sun at speeds over 30,000 miles per hour. The SUN MOVES in space, how fast, NO ONE CAN SAY for sure, but these two scientists define motion to the RIGHT of the DECIMAL point so insignificatnaly that IF YOU TAKE ERROR INTO ACCOUNT the Earth's motion is ZERO.

At best it's 0.0001

This got them a NOBLE PRIZE in 1906!

And, by the way, RECENT re-workings of their experiments in the 1980s PROVED THE SAME THING!

If the SUN is moving as fast as 80,000 miles per second in space (and NO ONE knows who fast we move, but QUASARS move at 150,000 miles per second, so it is conceivable our sun moves at HALF that speed) then if WE came to a dead stop, under Einsteins Realtivity theory we'd grow to be about 10 foot tall and weight about 300 pounds and would die 40% faster than a person on the moving Earth.

THAT I can understand.

Answer 4

Very interesting question. Well, the bible refers to allocation of gifts by god to certain individuals, one of which is “faith”. Faith is the belief in something that can not unequivocally be substantiated. Faith is a gift, and so isn’t a sound mind. With regard to common sense, it is logic based – however even common sense tells us very clearly that who ever and what ever created this universe and life on this planet has a knowledge that surpasses less than 1 billionth of our wildest imagination. Life as it is on this planet is absolutely amazing. To think there is not a god with all the circumstantial proof to me is counterintuitive and a lack of common sense.That is just me.

Answer 5

Because you can't have a relationship or more exactly, a relationship involving love without choice. Choice requires individual thoughts that are not controlled or pre-determined by our creator. Think about it, if I forced you to love me, would it really be love? Isn't the beauty of love all about that willingness. God wanted a relationship with us, so "common sense" as you put it, is a pre-requisite.

Answer 6

So you could make a choice at a young age to follow him and not be led into false Gods and false religions, bad things that will hurt you and disallusion you. But you could have a good life. And be happy without all the crapt of this evil, God forsaken world.

Answer 7

What makes you so wise. From the book of Proverbs chapter 16. Verses to make you wiser.

1.The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

3 Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

4 Yahweh has made everything for its own end- yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

5 Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

6 By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

Answer 8

You think you have clearer thinking than the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, some of the greatest thinkers who have ever lived? Read a little Augustine or Aquinas if you want to see what clear thinking is like.

Answer 9

Those are precisely the normal human traits that need to be overcome to believe. Do you think you are the ONLY one with those things?

It's called FAITH, not logic and common sense.

Answer 10

Because it isn't all that amazing to be worshiped by "robots". Would You rather be loved and cared for someone who was programmed to love you, or would it be more real if someone chose to love you, just as you are?

God desires a real relationship with people who choose him and that's why he make you a clear thinking lad, so you could learn about the world for yourself and if you desire to, have a relationship with your creator

Answer 11

Romans 2:4 Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

Romans 3:24-26 ... Christ Jesus; 25 whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; 26 for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.