In the religon world is it forbbiden to use you brain, As in believe this & question not even if your mind?

Question

rejects it.

Well Well what have we here, I was suprised by your answers I must say, truly they were in line with what I asked, however I would like you to venture just a little future.

Answer 1

unfortunately alot of religious people are afraid use their brains as they are scared to learn on their own for some particular reason they feel that they need a book to tell them how to handle cetain situations that life brings to them instead of relying on common sense reason and logic

Answer 2

We are to have the "ministerial use of reason" and not the "majesterial use of reason".

If the minds of man could be perfect in reasoning power, ALL PEOPLE WOULD AGREE at least on the things of this world. That we have wars, different politics, philosophies...etc clearly shows that our reasoning is not perfect but that each person reasons according to their own personal bias.

Some people's reasoning causes them to reject eating meat, or going to war, or aborting the unborn....... So, we can expect that some will also reject God on the basis of their biased reasoning while others are willing to see if there is a God.

Answer 3

Absolutely not. However, if you attend most of the main-stream churches of today, you would certainly think you are supposed to NOT use your brain. The Bible is an incredible book ; what is being taught out there is not the Bible - its mostly traditions of man. God is very specific in his Word - he wants you to use the brain he gave you, couple it with common sense, and then bathe it in the Wisdom found in his teachings. If a bunch of people are not even reading the Book, and just blindly doing with the good priest or pastor says, God says that they are as worthless as dung. You know what dung is, right? He says he can't even use them. What employer do you know that would keep employees on that after years and years go by, they still haven't learned anything about what their responsibilities are? That employer would probably fire them, right? Well, God feels the same way.
They sit in a pew listening to one bible verse a week, and then some long talk about God knows what - and hey, at one verse a week, it would take them about 200 years to even get through the Bible. Those people may as well go to a good ballgame. Another example God gives is: What if you sent a letter to someone you love, a close relative perhaps, and they never even bother to read your letter - they say, hey could someone take a look at this letter and let me know basically what the thing says, maybe you could give me a few words of it each week? Its an insult to Him, and he states quite clearly that he takes it as an insult. Use your brain, and I guarantee you that God will be much happier with you than if you allow yourself to get blindly led by the churches - most of them are going to be awarded by being deceived by the antichrist, who is coming first, before Jesus comes to gather anybody back to him. Since alot of churches teach the rapture doctrine, those folks will think its Jesus come to rapture them away; in fact, it will be the antichrist, coming back disquised as Jesus to deceive the masses. If they read the Bible with understanding, they would be able to use their brain, and not be deceived. The rapture theory is just one way God is using to deceive those who refuse to use their brains, and refuse to read the letter he has sent to them.

Answer 4

The reality is that 'God exists and so does Satan presently. Christians (at least here in the USA) are given test(s) by someone, probably via Satan. Whether the 'Christians' pass those 'tests' (7 that I presently know of), is another matter. After all,man is a false god in God's sight.

Answer 5

To a True Christian, it is imperative to use your brain. We are commanded to do so.

1Thess 5:21 Make sure of all things; hold fast to what is fine

2 CORINTHIANS 13:5.“Keep testing whether you are in the faith, keep proving what you yourselves are.”

However, we don't want to become too 'proud' of our own intellect.

1Corinth 1:19 For it is written: “I will make the wisdom of the wise [men] perish, and the intelligence of the intellectual [men] I will shove aside.” 20 Where is the wise man? Where the scribe? Where the debater of this system of things? Did not God make the wisdom of the world foolish? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not get to know God, God saw good through the foolishness of what is preached to save those believing.

22 For both the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks look for wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ impaled, to the Jews a cause for stumbling but to the nations foolishness; 24 however, to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 Because a foolish thing of God is wiser than men, and a weak thing of God is stronger than men.

Answer 6

I don't know about other religions, but I know mine puts a huge emphasis on gaining a personal testimony...meaning you follow it because you feel for yourself after studying and praying that it is true, instead of just following it because some leader told you to.

I like it that way.

Answer 7

You are kidding right? I mean, it says many times in the Bible that people have questioned, even fought with God over His judgements and rules.

Who told you that we weren't allowed to question?

Answer 8

You have discovered the important fact that it is easier to mock religion than to use your brain to evaluate it.

Answer 9

I use my brain all the time, you might try it, you will be surprised that it actually works.

Answer 10

That's why I believe in Deism: no prophets, no messiahs, no holy books, etc. God created the world and doesn't interfere.

God gave us reason, not religion.