Do you understand what I'm saying?
2007-11-02 15:31:03 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no, as a matter of fact, based on the definitions of those words, you cannot for it would be conflicting and oxymoronical.
2007-11-02 15:44:50 · answer #1 · answered by nonameshallbehere 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
That depends on how you define the words 'reasonable' and 'Christian'.
There are many kinds kinds of Christian at all levels of moral and ethical development. If you mean the kind of Christian legalist that takes every word of the KJV bible as infallible and divinely inspired, then no, because the text of the bible contains contradictory and unverifiable information. You have to be capable of a kind of double-think, or simply not know much about the history and content of the bible, to maintain that belief.
A person could easily study the bible, its history, it's contradictions and mistranslations and still find value in the teachings of Jesus after having made a sincere and rational study of the bible. But very few people make that effort or even bother to read the bible and understand it.
Too many people who think we live in a Christian country (we don't and never did) and that 'god' condones torture and killing (Jesus' teachings were supposed to replace the bloodthirst of the Old Testament, and he preached tolerance, forgiveness and generosity to the poor and sick.) They accept these fallacies because they are listening to some minister who makes his livelihood manipulating the poorly educated but good people in this world. This poor level of scholarship would be sad if it weren't so dangerous. People die because so many people are taking the word of unscrupulous leaders rather than doing their own study.
2007-11-02 23:33:07 · answer #2 · answered by Morgaine 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Of course you can! Being a Christian doesn't mean you have to ditch your common sense =D
I mean, we can explain a lot of things with science, but we can explain even more things through religion. For example, if someone said that it's raining because God's crying, you know for a fact that that's a lie. It rains because there is too much water for the clouds to hold. But God gave us rain in the first place. Do you see what I'm saying?
I'm a very logical person, but some things can be explained through basic reasoning, and others need to be explored and answered with religion.
2007-11-02 22:54:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
God expects nothing less!
Isaiah 1:18 -- "Come now, and let us reason together," Says the Lord...
If you've ever read Paul's writings you would see that reason is very important to the Christian life.
2007-11-03 04:42:28 · answer #4 · answered by BC 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
according to the bible and what it means to be christian, when compared and constrasted to what it is to be reasonable (the actual definition, not some blithering idiot's fantasy definition), no. yes, i understand what you are saying.
2007-11-02 22:38:11 · answer #5 · answered by H0NEY~BEE 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you're talking about being reasonable as human beings, of course. If you're talking about having points to debate with, no.
2007-11-02 22:37:46 · answer #6 · answered by Petrushka's Ghost 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We are reasonable but the problem is when we say what God's word says most people dont wanna hear it cause it ruins their fun. We have to love everyone but nowhere in God's word does it say that we have to be tolerant .
2007-11-02 22:36:32 · answer #7 · answered by bella s 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Yes
2007-11-02 22:34:32 · answer #8 · answered by Old guy 5 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Faith and Reason fit together hand in glove.
Read this...
http://watchtower.org/e/20020401/article_01.htm
- Bob
2007-11-03 01:03:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
You can't possibly be reasonable when you honestly believe that you are right and anyone who doesn't agree with that assessment and share in why you believe you are right must be wrong.
2007-11-02 22:34:52 · answer #10 · answered by Demopublican 6 · 5⤊ 3⤋