........yet to believe as Christians do,I have to stop thinking and accept on blind faith.I cant do that because I feel it denies my birthright ,that which separates me from the common animals.
So how does a Christian accept that they are in fact denying their birthright?
2006-11-27 04:07:56 · 11 answers · asked by Paul I 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Patti..........studied the bible for 17 years and other texts as well.It is a fairy tale with the message of one enlightened man buried in its pages
2006-11-27 04:13:25 · update #1
why do christians give this question thumbs down?Persecuting the right to think again?
2006-11-27 04:15:26 · update #2
all christians do not focus their beliefs on "blind faith" ,, and yes i agree, we are given thinking minds,, we should use that to question and arrive at our own decisions about everything in life,,,, faith can be based on thinking, consideration of facts,, and accepting that you may not be able to answer all the questions,,, there is an area that you just have to believe,,, perhaps that is the blind faith part of it,, but you do that with other things in your life, such as getting married to the one you love,,, it would be difficult to give yourself totally to the marriage, if you deweled on what you couldnt be sure of, if you needed absolute proof that all of your feelings /hopes were true.
2006-11-27 04:13:26 · answer #1 · answered by dlin333 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The notion that Christianity cannot cooperate with the reasoning mind is atheist mythology. They tell themselves this, and take the telling of it as a truth simply because it is they who've said it.
If Christians are incapable of reason, I would like to know how the areligious believe that Thomas Aquinas and the scholastics developed their rich and brilliant theologies in the 12th century, or how Augustine managed to write Civitas Dei?
Christian faith does not need to be blind. It can be an entirely informed faith. Frankly, I likely know more about paleo-anthropology and human evolution than you do, and can relate to you minute details about Homo Ergaster vs. Australopithecine morphology that you've likely never even heard of.
So how does this make me unreasoning?
2006-11-27 12:16:03 · answer #2 · answered by evolver 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, if He is mythical, He oculdn't have given you a rational inquiring mind, or any other kind of mind! lol.
But He did. And He wants us to approach things with that kind of a mind. The problem with those who resisted Jesus in His time was that they refused to use their rational, inquiring, minds. They were so stuck in their "religion" that they couldn't see the truth when it stared them in the face.
The apostol Paul could be ranked among the greatest logical thinkers of all time.
Moses found God because he had an inquiring mind. He wanted to know why the burning bush was not being consumed, so he investigated. God honoured that.
Do you have the kind of inquiring mind that tries to find out why some people have been so radically transformed? Take a man like Chuck Colson, for example. He was president Nixon's "hatchet man". While he hadn't done anything strictly illegal that he was accused of, and while his whole life tendancy was to defend himself, in court he suddenly said: "I deserve to be condemned, I did not honour my committment to serve, I was not honest" (I'm paraphrasing, but he basically said he deserved prison). He went to prison for over a year, and he is now a leader in christian circles, working hard to make prisoners' lives easier all over the world.
2006-11-27 12:20:32 · answer #3 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I, as a Christian, do not feel as if i am denying my birthright because i do not only believe on faith. When i asked God to come into my life and lead it, His spirit came into my body and filled me. It is that spirit that tells me when i do something wrong, like speak unkindly to someone or think an unkind thought.
Also, if you think about the bible and really read it, how can you not possibly believe?
Only people who have not studied the bible are unbelievers.
2006-11-27 12:11:38 · answer #4 · answered by Patti T 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If someone walked up to me on the street and said 'believe in God' and I said 'ok' that would be blind faith, and kind of silly.
I have studied, and studied and have had my own experiences that drew me to the conclusion that there was a God. I use my brain all the time, maybe more than non believers, because it takes a lot of willpower to fully submit to something.
2006-11-27 12:11:37 · answer #5 · answered by ♫O Praise Him♫ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Animals know what the score is, we have lost this part of our psyche.
Find your own path, make your own discoveries only then will you know you have found the real truth, if you get influenced by anyone elses beliefs or follow any wierd cult, you have lost your path.
Ask for guidence, there is something there which will help you, call it God call it what you want, but believe me it is there. And when you knock, the door will open.
2006-11-27 12:24:42 · answer #6 · answered by Ganymede 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you feel the need to be separate from common animals? If humankind just accepted the idea that we are not separate from or better than any other life form on this planet, a myriad of issues would automatically be solved.
2006-11-27 12:11:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I can't speak for all Christians, or any other group, but if a person actually opens his or her mind to the possibility that perhaps we are more than our physical bodies, it opens up a world of slippery slopes.
2006-11-27 12:14:47 · answer #8 · answered by slippped 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're simply wrong. Doesn't take 17 years of reading to see that.
2006-11-27 12:16:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Animals don't have faith in anything, that's a human trait as well.
2006-11-27 12:09:17 · answer #10 · answered by Atlas 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋