why when someone asks you a question about life or your beliefs, must you quote from scripture. Dont you have your own ideas and logic? Does it ever seem to you that by having a programmed response, even if it is based on scripture, denies you of your own thinking and beliefs? ....... have you ever thought that by denying yourself to doubt or to question things that you know in your own heart are ilogical, enable you to loose your free will and become brainwashed?
2007-06-17 06:56:59 · 14 answers · asked by ANyone but you 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I dont get mad. I just like to listen and read to what people think with an open, unaltered mind.
2007-06-17 07:05:13 · update #1
Bryan and Egyptian
Although you are on the opposite sides of the same branch both of your responses have a lot of logic and truth to them!
2007-06-17 07:11:30 · update #2
I quote scripture because most people want to know where the person answering has gotten their information!
2007-06-17 09:35:00 · answer #1 · answered by Pamela V 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
being a Christian is to be conformed to the mind of Christ. You can call it what you like but being well aged in this ole life I can honestly say that in making my own decisions on any thing has not brought me one ounce of peace or happiness that lasted, nor riches. This life is a school of learning and only a place to stop at before eternity. So if the Lord God almighty says we are to become Christ Like, We are to become Christ Like and say and do as he did.
What thought, Ideal or logic have you ever had that spoke a whole universe into existence. NONE. But Our Savior Our Lord He did He spoke everything that is, into being. even you. So to quote scripture would only make since to me. That at the great judgment day I won't be like the rich man who was and still is begging for just a drop of water from the lake of fire... So brainwashing I don't think so, Do I lose my free will, I don't think so, if I gain heaven and all that it pertains in the end I call that freedom.
2007-06-17 14:12:03 · answer #2 · answered by Tim and Karen J 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Rest assured we are not all like that. I like to use my words and ideas. Sometimes I'll back it up w/ scripture if it is warranted. I doubt. I question. I have free will and am definately not a brainwashed robot. However, I do know what you are trying to get across. I am a Christian and that bothers me too. My mother has quoted scripture to me my whole life and I avoid her because of it. Don't get me wrong, I love the scripture but I think you get more across with your own words and thoughts based on what you know in scripture to be true.
2007-06-17 14:06:30 · answer #3 · answered by Kaliko 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I frequently quote scripture and other good sources of information to help people understand and believe my answers. For example, quoting scripture to people who have faith in them helps with the credibility of your answer. Quoting scripture to those without faith in them, can possibly help them see the wisdom they contain.
I never give an answer I feel in my heart is illogical. In fact, I believe it's easy to be deceived unless you use both your mind and heart together. I try to always do this, but as you've surmised, many people do not.
2007-06-17 14:08:59 · answer #4 · answered by Bryan Kingsford 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Denying myself of doubt? Having doubt about God IS what steered me towards Him. Also, I think logically and rationally quite well. In addition to an Associate Degree in Education, I'm a prolific student of the Toulmin Model of Argumentation, and was a voracious debater in college. I never lost.
Believe me, I understand that having faith in God in this modern world is irrational considering the "minds" I have to deal with daily. But I still help them, anyway.
2007-06-17 14:11:36 · answer #5 · answered by RIFF 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I quote scripture for the reason to show I don't make stuff up. I know there is a higher authority than me. If it's called being brainwashed then hallelujah that's what I want
2007-06-17 14:07:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
We use scripture because it says things better than we can. As the word of God, it's also authoritative. Your insinuation that Christians cannot think for themselves is totally ridiculous. What's illogical to me is that people are willing to accept the theory that all this just happened as fact. It takes a lot more faith to believe in a non-creation theory than to believe in God.
2007-06-17 14:12:32 · answer #7 · answered by Machaira 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is the backbone of the belief. You also get mad when we don't back belief with scripture. We can't win.
2007-06-17 14:03:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Jer 23:28 "The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat?" says the LORD.
2007-06-17 15:24:22 · answer #9 · answered by Steve Amato 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are not brainwashed cause washing cleans filth. It seem more filth is being put in them by religion thus they need a brainwash.
Basically they do this because they need to be supported by something in life as though their own feet aren't enough to support their bodies and their common knowledge is not enough to be classed as worthy thus they lean on the scriptures for support. Little do they realize by doing this, they are insulting their own intelligence.
2007-06-17 14:07:55 · answer #10 · answered by Jahfrog 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋