Do you ever kind of want to be christian but won't because you're a logical thinker and could never really?

Question

I don't think I could ever truly believe in it even though it's how I was raised.

And in this statement I am in no way trying to say that Christians are illogical thinkers nor was I trying to imply it.

Answer 1

I see where you're coming from- there are many scientists today that feel the Bible does not explain the beginnings of the earth, that Jesus' feat was impossible, and that it is all just a myth created to calm people down and make them less scared of death. People sometimes see the Bible and think it's kind of a fantasy, distant setting. That it's too good to be true. As yourself, I was raised in a Christian home, and many people around me believe, seemingly without falter- they don't really have any evidence to prove their beliefs, but they just believe it because that's what the Bible says. I wouldn't say doubts- but I've had my questions too, that's why I chose to do some research about it. After compiling the evidence, I find that the only logical thing to do points towards God's existence. If you look deeper into many of the claims made by scientists, you'll find that they really don't prove anything, or that their twisted. So I read the Case for Christ series (listed below). These books were written by a full-blown atheist journalist who once and for all wanted to prove to the world that there was no God with cold, hard evidence. He traveled to different places, met with different people and found the evidence against him- that there was so much evidence for God that He'd never known before. He found the evidence so compelling and hard-to-deny that he converted and now is an extreme advocate for Christ, making apologetics his mission now to get the word out and prove with physical evidence that God is real- even in a way that us logical thinkers can't get past the evidence.

Answer 2

I don't get where you're coming from. I am a devout Christian and have been all my life. I think I am a very logical thinker and it all makes perfect sense to me. There is nothing illogical about believing in things that you can't see, but for which you have significant other evidences that they're true. There are other ways of sensing truth other than your basic five senses. You just have to be "open-minded."

Answer 3

I have been a Christian all my life, but I agree with you that questioning the Bible in places is a normal thing to do when you have a logical brain.
I understand and believe that following Jesus' good deeds is an honourable thing to do (haven't quite mastered the water into wine thing yet), but as far as creation in 7 days and all that rubbish, we've just evolved too much as a human species for that to remain a plausable explanation. I'm not knocking my fellow Christians who believe it, it's just not a realistic answer for me to take verbatum considering all we have learnt over the last few centuries about space and stellar object creation.

Other anomalies exist which I won't bore you with in detail, but there are clues to an alternative sequence of events, glossed over by conventional religion in favour of an easy solution requiring no direct challenges to the status quo in the modern church.

Answer 4

If a individual calls himself a Christian and solutions questions in step together with his own opinion of issues, then they are actually not possibly a Christian. Answering questions in accordance to the Bible is using theory out good judgment and attitude-the perfect variety of effective judgment, that's godly know-how. Christians are unfastened and self reliant thinkers. We use our unfastened will to study God's be conscious, study it and study what it says to human know-how and human philosophies. We make our own decision to the two persist with what the Bible says or reject it. Homosexuals have been placed to dying below the Mosaic regulation and it became into appropriate to basically one national group-Israelites. Christians are actually not below the Mosaic regulation. below the Christian association, if all of us is discovered to be enticing in homosexuality and is set to proceed to be in it, then they're expelled from the congregation. they don't lose their life, yet they lose all social and non secular fellowship with fellow believers. they could be reinstated in to the congregation while they stop their incorrect habit and are repentant. The Israelites never dashed disobedient youngster's heads on rocks. That became into finished by potential of people who conquered the Israelites. Christians who fairly persist with what the Bible says don't have 2 diverse evaluations on scriptural truths. they're united in ideals the worldwide over. The Bible says animals and human beings don't have souls. They the two are souls. Christians who have faith in accordance to the Bible have faith this- a million Corinthians a million:10; 2 Corinthians 13:11; Genesis 2:7; a million:20, 21, 24, 25 Jesus stated he and his followers have been no area of the worldwide and he resisted efforts by potential of others to get him in touch in politics. Christians persist with this trend and stay out of political subject concerns. They comprehend that each and all of the governments of this earth will at some point be replaced by potential of God's Kingdom. while one says the Lord's prayer, they're praying for that Kingdom to come returned to the earth-Matt. 6:10; John 6:14, 15; 17:sixteen; 18:36; Daniel 2:40 4

Answer 5

How about this? Become a Christian, and then endeavor to be a logical thinker, too. Best of both worlds. Sounds logical to me.

Answer 6

Being a Christian has given me the strength to do many things and some people are just not capable of giving glory to anyone but themselves. That's why we are having so many people on tranquilizers, sleep aids, etc., also so many youth committing suicide. Everyone to there own, I'm not trying to be unkind, I wish I could give away some of this love I have for Jesus, I would pour it in large cups and hand it out to those folks on the Divorce network first.

Answer 7

I'm sorry, Christians are illogical thinkers? Some of the greatest minds believed in God. For example Einstein, Newton, C.S. Lewis, Louis Pasteur. Science was first explored to explore God, you can hardly say Christians are illogical.

Answer 8

No. Not really. That's like asking "do you ever want to be black, but you can't 'cause you're asian?". I was born a certain way, I am who I am, I could go through the motions of Christianity but it wouldn't make me a Christian. In my opinion it would be doing myself a huge disservice, as well as wasting time that I could put towards more productive activities.

Answer 9

I like how you assume that Christians can't think logically. Let me say a few things before I get to my point...
I believe in Evolution. Can't spell it, but I believe it.
I'd much rather everyone STFU about Christianity than continue being jerks about it, on both sides.
Bible thumpers, quoters, and out-of-context...ers....annoy me.

And, oh yeah, I was born and raised in the Catholic Church.

Answer 10

I am a logical thinker. Creation is the only explanation that makes sense. And Jesus of the Bible fits the description of the one who is the creator.