Spiritual, Reasoning Christian with Faith
“Come now, and let us reason together…” (Isa 1:18)
Are you a spiritual, reasoning Christian with faith? Does your faith stand on God’s word and reasoning? Can you reason with anyone who questions your faith and be able to answer whatever questions not just from the Bible but also from reasoning? When you find yourself unable to answer questions in life, do you become a Biblical dogmatist or are you open to reasoning? Are you willing to have your Christian doctrines and practices to be questioned by reasoning? Your answers to these questions would indicate whether you are just a brain-washed Christian robot or a spiritual, reasoning Christian with faith.
Does it make a difference to be reasoning Christian with faith?
If today, I tell you as a Christian that you must believe that the earth is flat as proposed by Diodorus of Tarsus (d394). Will you accept it? If not, why? When Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) promoted heliocentric view over the geocentric view, the Roman Catholic Church tried him for heresy, forced him to recant and he was condemned to live under house arrest for the rest of his life. What would you say about that event? Will you say that under the present scientific awareness, the Roman Catholic Church was wrong? If yes, why won’t you support the Church even now as a Christian? You must be loyal to the Church! You must continue to say that the Church was right. Will you? So, in what ways does it make a difference to be a spiritual, reasoning Christian with faith?
Firstly, ignorance can be remedied but deliberate non-reasoning fools cannot be helped. You might say that I am being harsh. Am I? Imagine one of your family members is crossing a