I agree with you there frodo regarding thinking and reasoning about your faith,but I find that impossible to do.My reason for this is that it's hard to make rational something so irrational as religion.Its teachings are so disjointed and self contradictory that it is not easily discernible.Actually, faith and reason dont even belong in the same sentence since they are total opposites of one another.According to encarta the defintion of reason from a philosophical point of view is :
intellect as basis for knowledge: the ability to think logically regarded as a basis for knowledge, as distinct from experience or emotions
The bible defines faith in Hebrews 11:1
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Based on this definition faith itself is an emotion its actually hoping without proof.
The bible does tell you to
2 Timothy 2:15 - Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
But this is only a reference to studying the scriptures.Worldly knowledge such as philosophy and the sciences are actually condemned as foolish by the scriptures.
1 Corinthians 2:14 - But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 3:19 - For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
intellect as basis for knowledge: the ability to think logically regarded as a basis for knowledge, as distinct from experience or emotions
The bible defines faith in Hebrews 11:1
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Based on this definition faith itself is an emotion its actually hoping without proof.
The bible does tell you to
2 Timothy 2:15 - Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
But this is only a reference to studying the scriptures.Worldly knowledge such as philosophy and the sciences are actually condemned as foolish by the scriptures.
1 Corinthians 2:14 - But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 3:19 - For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
There is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition
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