When one is a "believer" is that a lack of intelligence , wisdom or something else ?

Answer 1

Here is an example. You are driving along a road after a rain storm. You see a pile of rocks lying on the side of the road. "The rain must have caused these rocks to fall" you say. As you are driving, you then come to a beautiful stone wall on the side of the road. "Somebody must have built that wall." you would assume logically.
A person who believes in God, looks at the world thus. It is a logical assumption. It is not lack of intelligence or wisdom. Even if I weren't a christian, I still would not believe that life came to be through...well...nothing. It is illogical in every sense of the word from my understanding.

Answer 2

Assuming you're referring to religious beliefs:

It's nothing to do with intelligence. I'll save "wisdom" for another time because one person's wisdom is another's idiocy.
Let's be clear that there are tremendously strong cultural/social forces that foster - sometimes even demand - "beliefs." The indoctrination more often than not starts as soon as a child can communicate. And it's generally carried out by those figure the child most depends on and loves.

Underlying this dogmatic juggernaut are highly evolved coping strategies that humanity has developed - from which religions spring as anthropomorphic abstractions.

In short, it's part of our cultural baggage. In most societies it would take an extraordinary amount of intellectual independence and intrepidity to espouse a critical view of "belief." In some societies it's downright deadly. But even in the West it's easy to send folks into conniptions by saying: "I'm an atheist."

Bottom line: Believers can be found at all levels of the intelligence scale. Non-believers, in relatively religious societies, tend to be on the higher end of that scale and it's correlated "level of academic achievement" scale. I think the main factor is more to do with intellectual independence than "wisdom."

Answer 3

To believe means to be convinced something is true with no evidence to support it. No one of very high intelligence can take such a position unless his emotions and fellings overcome his thinking ability. I look at evidence for all things. Even when I was 7 or 8 years old, I could not accept religion without question. I saw even then many contradictions and childish science (e.g. The universe was not created in 7 days 6000 or so years ago, there was no world flood, the sky cannot roll up like a scroll, pi is not 3, Judas couldn't die both by falling and by hanhing, both God and Devil could not inspire David's census) in the Bible. Later, I studied other religions besides Christianity.

Answer 4

It depends on what you believe in. It also how and why you believe it. If you believe it from personal experience and research then that shows wisdom and intelligence. However, if you believe just from a book, a person in power, or tradition, then that would show a lack of wisdom.

Answer 5

If you believe the answers - does that indicate a lack of intelligence, wisdom or something else?

Answer 6

It's a simple matter of faith. When you sit down in a chair, do you stop to consider if it will hold you, who made it, what materials they used? Do you completely understand the laws of gravity which hold you and the chair on planet earth? Not likely; you just settle down comfortably, with faith the chair will hold you. Wisdom comes from God's word and only someone with a true lack of intelligence and no faith, could really read it, and not at least be hungry to learn more. Did you "believe" in Santa Claus? See, faith is a good thing. God delivers.

Answer 7

Believers or unbelievers, it doesn't mean lack of intelligence, wisdom or even something else.

It is the person who makes the person. You can choose to be bitter if you want to. You can choose to be vindictive. You can choose to curse your life away. You can choose to ridicule those who believe in the Lord. You can even choose to give me a thumbs down. I don't care. I believe in the Lord and I believe in the promise of Jesus. I believe it makes me a better person.

I went thru school, college, the board exam with my faith in Him. There's not a loss in it, there is fullness in Him.

You may not understand this, but that doesn't mean it's not offered to you too. Good day.

Answer 8

What know-how ?The selective know-how of unquestioning fools . Oh good that meant observe of god rag referred to as the bible which even hebrew pupils doubt has any authenticity and that they have been meant to have written the rattling factor. interior the record of historic kings of isreal 2 substantial names are lacking DAVID and SOLOMON and a few archeologists are taking off to experience the only god beleif of the isrealites is the remnants of the egyptian akhnaten cult who replaced into the 1st to declare there replaced into merely one real god long in the previous the hebrews did. for each shown scientific actuality shown in the process history there has been some fool with smart *** quote attempting to coach it incorrect. tell me do you people nonetheless argue approximately what number angels can dance on the top of a pin?It replaced right into a huge deal in christian circles at one time .Or the sunlight circles the earth ?have you ever given up on that one yet? each" smart" pronouncment and thought placed forth by ability of you people has shown to be utter nonsense why ought to we settle for any from some musty old text textile we ought to consistently have out grown by ability of now.

Answer 9

Is this a trick question? When one is a believer, you lack doubt. Isn't that a dictionary definition of what one lacks when one believes? Assuming you mean religious believers, if all of them lacked wisdom and intelligence, the pope would not be a millionare, and neither would each priest. Only the dumb sub-ordinates tend to lack intelligence.

-Dominus-

P.S. I did not mean to insult you if you are a dumb sub-ordinate that pays 10% of your income to a priest.

(Hopefully the dumb sub-ordinates won't realize that I insulted them again in the PS statement.)

Answer 10

Believing is neither lack of intelligence or wisdom.

Making someone believe in something which one has not experienced oneself is lack of intelligence and wisdom.