(November 7, 2014 at 9:32 am)ChadWooters Wrote:(November 6, 2014 at 10:04 am)ronedee Wrote: If you are going to use your logic to look for God be prepared to be constantly challenged and confused. The brain is last in the order of human spirituality.Aren't you being a little hard on the intellect as a means of knowing God. While I agree that an openness to the Holy Spirit is essential to coming to faith, intellect can lead to and sustain religious faith. I know that to be true in my case.
Heya Chad! Yup! Actually I consider myself to be very logical. My wife is very intellectual. And several of my Godly friends are also. I have no qualms over it. I just believe that it isn't necessary to find God. And it actually stands in the way of true spiritualism. Because obviously, God inspired spiritualism doesn't relate to any earthly logic.
Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children."
Personally, I had to leave my intellect behind when first searching for my Faith. After I received strong Faith, I was able to slowly make the connections. And I try to use "logical reasoning" in any arguments defending my Faith. Actually I love it when I am able to "use" logic to explain God. It makes a stronger case to the non-believer, and is much harder to dismiss!
But.... I am waning on the arguing front. I have come to the realization that the Holy Spirit is the ONE who teaches. I just try to support the "fence sitters" that are looking for answers. I'm through bible thumping! Its really fruitless here. But, thousands do visit this site! I put the "Word" out here hopefully for someone to stumble upon.
I would love to say I've seen it the other way around (logic first). But, I haven't. If it worked that way for you, I would love to hear your story! Ron
Quis ut Deus?
