2007-03-29 02:11:12 · 12 answers · asked by U-98 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why do you ask? Do you feel you are not smart enough? or are you asking because you think Bible believers are not smart???
Anyone who can read and understand can believe the Bible or any other book. It is faith that what the book says is true, is what makes you a believer.
The Bible is the Holy Word of God meant for all men to read, to understand, and to apply to their daily life, for their own salvation and for God's glorification.
2007-03-29 02:17:06 · answer #1 · answered by carolinagirl965 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is no limit, either way. A person can have an IQ of 65, or 200, and still believe. However, people with higher IQs tend to NOT believe the Bible unless they research it first.
I have an IQ of between 125 and 145. It took twelve years of research for me to come to the point where I believe MOST of the Bible. Some parts I have trouble with, but I keep searching for answers.
2007-03-29 02:32:51 · answer #2 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should probably ask the opposite question. According their own internally developed statistics, MENSA, a society of people with an IQ of 148 or higher, is comprised of somewhere between 84 and 92% athiests or agnostics. There are scientific organizations that have reported that athiests make up over 95% of their members. This is not to say they are right to believe or disbelieve, but your question seems a bit out of touch with the statistics currently available.
2007-03-29 02:44:44 · answer #3 · answered by seattlefan74 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes I think faith and intelligence isnt related, but other times am not so sure.
Am still contemplating on this one.
Currently, my main conclusion is, you dont have to be extremely smart, but a religion of truth from God, would not clash with the mind and logic of a human.
Which is why, am still a muslim, even after reading and knowing Christianity.
2007-03-29 02:20:08 · answer #4 · answered by Antares 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Several of Christ's disciples were functionally illiterate, so I suppose it's true what the Bible says about having faith like a grain of mustard seed and the heart of a child! You don't have to be exceptionally smart, merely willing.
2007-03-29 05:55:26 · answer #5 · answered by bigvol662004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you have gone though the public school system anytime over the last 20 years or so, you probably can't comprehend the word "faith" as it has been pretty much outlawed. But if you can actually see things as they are then anywhere from Forest Gump to Albert Einstein.
2007-03-29 02:35:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have to be as smart as an Eckhart or a Schopenhauer to be able to interpret it so it makes an ounce of sense
2007-03-29 02:21:20 · answer #7 · answered by Sorrowful W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well there are plenty of two year olds who believe every word of the bible, even though they've obviously never read any of it.
2007-03-29 02:19:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In mathematics, there is a concept of a set that is only bounded from above.
This concept can also be applied to your question.
2007-03-29 02:17:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
belief of the religious kind has very little to do with individual intelligence... youre brainwashed as a child with this nonsense and its very hard to 'de-program' a person unless that person wishes to investigate his beliefs...once an individual does that, it is usually a pretty short trip to atheism...
2007-03-29 02:28:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋