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Faith AND Intelligence

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Pastor Tom

Are faith and intelligence mutually exclusive? So often, I hear or read about people dismissing Christianity because it is so naive. “Thinking people know that the miracles aren’t true or that the Bible is mostly myth,” they say. It’s like they’re convinced rigorous thought and Christians cannot coexist.

Bill Crowder points this out: “David McCullough’s biography of John Adams, one of America’s founding fathers and early presidents, describes him as ‘both a devout Christian and an independent thinker, and he saw no conflict in that.’”

Crowder then says “I am struck by that statement, for it carries a note of surprise suggesting that Christians are somehow naive or unenlightened, and that the idea of a “thinking Christian” is a contradiction.”

I agree. Christianity was never meant to be an excuse to shut off our brains. In fact we are commanded to “love the Lord our God with all our hearts, souls and MINDS.” (Matthew 22:37).

If someone presents an argument we can’t yet answer, we must not blow them off or plug our ears saying “La, La, La.” It’s okay to say “I’ll have to think about that.” That’s showing love for God and our questioner!

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