Does having faith mean that you cannot have intellect?

Answer 1

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:
because thou hast rejected knowledge,
I will also reject thee,
that thou shalt be no priest to me:
seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God,
I will also forget thy children." [Hosea 4:6]

"How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?
and the scorners delight in their scorning,
and fools hate knowledge?"
[Proverbs 1:22]

A profound lack of knowledge amongst those who claim to be Christians, is the precise reason that Christianity has become the laughing-stock of intelligent people;
and is the reason why churches have turned into the man-centred, feel-good, social-club travesties that they now are.

The prime result of true, biblical faith is an overwhelming desire to know more and more of the holiness and doctrine of God, through the application of the brain: the hard work of diligent study in the Word of God.

True faith will never settle for sloth, apathy, or settling for whatever smooth speeches flow from the platform of the contemporary church. The Bereans applied their minds to everything that Paul said. And were commended for it.

"... in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so."

Regards,
Philip Livingstone
www.theforgottenbible.org

Answer 2

Not at all.


Faith is the perfection of the intellect as the intellect is the perfection of the sense.


Faith does not destroy the intellect, but vastly amplifies its powers allowing one to perceive (with the mind, of course), realities that it could not grasp without it.

It is similar to the principle that a telescope does not destroy vision, but allows one to see things that the naked eye alone could not see.


Faith perfects the intellect in the way that the intellect perfects the senses because if we look at a chair, the raw senses sees a pattern of colours. It is the intellect that integrates this so that we see one thing which is a singular chair and not a meaningless grouping of colours.

Similarly, without the faculty of faith, an educated man may know much, but this constitutes nothing but unrelated and uncorrelated elements of information. If he were to acquire the faculty of faith, all this knowledge would become integrated into a universal pattern, with an understanding of where each element fits into the whole. Reality as a whole would then be seen as having an intelligible structure, arranged hierarchically, with God at the top as the ultimate cause of all and as the goal of all (as the Alpha and the Omega).



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Answer 3

Certainly not.

Yet, I am not a mechanic and I have faith that my car will start.

Faith and intellect can go hand in hand, yet I know that sometimes intellect can get in the way of faith. That is, if God says to go here and my intellect says that it is not a good idea, then I am not trusting that God knows better. Yet, that is not so much a matter of intellect, but of my own finite understanding.

I do know that there are many, many intellectual people who walk in faith - ask Dr. Ben Carson, world leading pediatric neuro-surgeon. Ask an award winning architect in Philadelphia. Ask the scientists who, while trying to disprove God only came to find Him.

I think that laying your beliefs on an unproven theory is a level of faith without intellect.

Answer 4

Faith and intellect are not opposites. In fact, faith without intellect is nonsense.

Answer 5

No. But depending on you, your faith can become stronger or weaker by your intelligence. Example: Lucifer was the greatest angle but he defied God by thinking he was better or just as good as God. But how can this be? Angles were not given free will... How could an angle think it is greater than its creator when it doesn't have free will?
You can choose to look at this conundrum and "intelligently" say this seem hardly likely and it seems like a fairy tale
OR you can be smart enough to see past your intelligence and strengthen your faith

Answer 6

Actually, only people with intellect have faith

Answer 7

No. Faith is simple what one believes. One can have faith in God, or the automobile they drive, or their doctor or in evolution. Most all Th.D.'s have faith, and probably far more intellect than most educated people. No doctoral program, in any field, has a higher level of requirements than that of a Th.D.

Answer 8

No, it just means that you trust in your faith over your intellect.

Answer 9

Atheist scientists have done all they could to separate faith and reason. In the past it was no problem to put faith and reason together. Thanks to ungodly educational efforts, reason is said to be of logic and religion is of feelings. This is utterly contrary to real life. The Bible is used by archaeologists because it gives names, places and events firmly rooted in history to help them understand the artifacts and culture they dig up. Faith is built on real events, not on feelings. We've had medical advances based on the Bible, some law has been derived from biblical precepts, and many of our scientific discoveries have been made by Christians who believed God created a world of order and beauty, and so they set about to discover what God has made and to understand the laws that govern His creation.

Many of today’s budding evolutionists are depending on knowledge that is decades old and are unsure of the implications of what they believe. Today’s evolutionist thinkers have come to some inevitable conclusions about what science really is. They have already artificially separate faith and science, saying that faith is of religion and morals, and science is of reason and logic. Where does this lead to?

One Harvard evolutionist sanctioned bestiality—after all, we are no better than animals ourselves. After a teen gave birth and threw the baby into the trash bin, an evolutionist said she was only acting according to her genetic makeup. Evolutionists have considered these actions and have concluded that our free will is an illusion; we are actually acting upon programmed instincts. One evolutionist went so far as to say that all the morals and reasonings today come from built-in genetic predisposition, and none of what we are saying, writing, reasoning, and proving are true or objective; they will all pass, to be replaced with other conjectures down the road. Even evolution is not really true; it has come about as a survival instinct to protect the species—survival of the fittest!

Despairing of where their logic has led them, some evolutionists have tried to fight back. They wrote that we need to reach beyond ourselves and impose morals like brotherly love. This contradicts everything they have written. If they are predisposed by their genetic code, how can they possibly break out? This line of thought contradicts every tenet of evolution!

They have found that their view of life does not square with real life, so some of them are trying to make up reasons to include morality and faith—which their science rejects. They have come to despair at imposing purpose in their lives solely by science. They have come full circle, but have stopped short of going where the facts actually lead them—to a Creator who loves them and gives their lives meaning.

Answer 10

if people didn't have faith, this world would be a even bigger mad house than it already is....you have faith, if you didn't you'd be scarred to death every time you made a move or took a breath,because you be thinking....will I breath again, will I die if I get in my car and go for a drive...people would go crazy....come to think of it ....maybe that's whats wrong with the world.....people have lost their faith.....and TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION ...NO...ITS THE OPPOSITE, IF YOU DON'T HAVE FAITH YOU ARE STUPID