RE: The Seat of Man's Intellect: What Says Your God?
August 29, 2015 at 2:33 pm
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2015 at 2:33 pm by Mudhammam.)
(August 29, 2015 at 2:25 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:Quite clearly, then, the "biblical sense" is wrong as it emphasizes an organ that has nothing to with "the depths of one's being" or "where the person decides"...(August 29, 2015 at 2:10 pm)Nestor Wrote: What does "heart" have to do with "intelligence" or "soul" or "mind"? The assumption is that either God knows how to use the words he's causing his communicators to write down for all of history, or that the people who wrote the word "heart" understood exactly what everyone - such as Aristotle or Tertullian - would take it to signify: the seat of man's intellect, soul, ruling faculty, whatever you want to call it.
368 The spiritual tradition of the Church also emphasizes the heart, in the biblical sense of the depths of one's being, where the person decides for or against God.239
As was my point.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza