Our understanding of faith in Christ has suffered a great loss. We have lost the ability to tie our intellect together with our experiences. i.e. We have a divorce of mind and heart. The two rarely communicate anymore.
Our reasoning abilities have accepted the lessons taught to us in science class, but our hearts have accepted the message of the cross of Jesus. The problem here is that along the way, we have been taught that somehow reason and God don't mix. -This is a lie.
There is nothing in the natural world that disproves God, Jesus, or anything in the Bible. When reason and the heart begin talking, and study begins to occur, we really begin reading and learning. And the lessons that we learn show things like an ancient world wide flood. The walls of a city called Jericho falling into heaps of rubble with no explanation. We the see the writings of Josephus, an ancient Jewish historian (Jews are usually consider the message of Christ to be blasphemy), tell of a men named John the baptizer and Jesus of Nazareth.
We think that our faith must remain private because there is nothing to back it up. Quite the opposite is true.
We need to look at the Samaritans of John 4:39-42.
"And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.” So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. And many more believed because of His own word. Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”" NKJV of the Bible.
In this passage some people believed because of the testimony of one woman. But many more believed because they went and found out for themselves.
When we think critically and then realize how true the message of the Bible is we are strengthened in our own faith and when sharing that faith with others. We are much better equipped to serve Christ when we include both, reason and heart, not just one or the other.
Bob
II Timothy 2:15
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