16-08-2024, 01:26 AM
(15-08-2024, 10:06 PM)Ali Imran Wrote: You use logic for everything, like when crossing the road. But when it comes to faith, you must turn off logic. That is what you are saying.
Well, that works for some people but not for others, people like me. If I find it illogical, my mind would not be able to accept it. That is how God made me. Yet, according to your belief, I will be thrown in hell because God made me such that I cannot accept something illogical as valid theology.
Your heart accepts the Bible as true but your mind cannot because you can see what I've shown you. You're not stupid.
The heart and the mind must be in cohesion when worshiping God.
One of the first things we learn from the Bible is that God is a Spirit (John 4:24). God, who is a Spirit, is omnipresent: He is present everywhere simultaneously, and can commune with us on a one-to-one basis. Yes, God is all of that and he is also as personal with every one of His children. We get acquainted with God in the intimacy of a Father-child relationship, not just in the awesome fact of His greatness.
Now I (and you) am a spirit; I have a soul, and I live in a body (1 Thess 5:23). I become acquainted with God through my spirit, not with my mind or body. I can't understand God with my intellect. That's what's wrong with the world today; people have tried to understand God and the things of God with their minds. That's why you see empty words with no power. People are trying to understand God with the intellect, and they talk about God and explain things from a theological standpoint.
You can study every theological book and learn a little from these books about God. And you may know something about God, but you'll never know God personally. You'll never really get acquainted with God until your spirit comes into contact with God's Spirit. Then only will you get acquainted with God in childlike faith and simplicity. You don't become acquainted with God by what you hear, what you see, what you read, or by your emotions. You get to know God by your spirit coming into contact with God's Spirit. That's where the real knowledge Of God takes place - in your spirit or heart, not just in your mind or intellect.