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lehmann520
I have found, since I came to God and understood, that my mind is very active and I have more interest in the world around me, how it works, why it works the way it does etc.
I have also found new, very deep fellowship with other people who also understand God. I am surprised to find my self drifting further and further afield from the members of my former church and am also surprised to find that, sometimes, they appear so...naive and....angry despite the fact that they are good people and honestly trying to do good things. Some of those good things seem so, misdirected, and obviously ill conceived to me.

Has this happened to anyone else?
What does it mean?
Can a true understanding of God increase the capacity for understanding the world in general?
Does faith increase knowledge?

Dawn
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meerocks
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This has happened to me and I don't know what it means. Faith decreases knowledge in some cases. A reason for this is because Christians are known as some of the most critical and judgmental people in the world. We're viewed like that because we're always trying to perfect ourselves to be like Jesus. We're always trying to find the good things and by doing so, we pinpoint the wrong in others. To find the good things can also lead other people to be close-minded for fear of contamination of knowledge.
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lehmann520
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Is it faith that decreases knowledge or false faith? by false faith I mean having faith in a religion or a set of rules or even a book instead of God.

I once had that kind of faith. All those things were very important to me and I got very angry about sin and sinners

then I found God and several things happened. My anger went away. My pain and grief went away. My mind EXPLODED with new ways of seeing things and doing things. I found courage to be truly compassionate and to stand up for important things.
I have become absolutely fearless in my faith without being critical or judgmental.
In fact, I suddenly saw sin in an entirely new way. I saw, with great clarity, that God's ten laws were about sin's affect on my soul, not on His love.
If and when I sin, I sin, not against God, but against my own soul. Doing this brings pain and doubt and grief and anger into my life but, when I recognize the sin and then turn again to God, He has forgiven me for hurting myself and takes away my pain and grief and anger.
This is just part of this knew knowledge I am talking about. There is much more but much of it is about this world I live in now.

I dunno. Maybe I'm wrong.
Dawn
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amose1550bce
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I would like to say that your knowledge of God is fantastic! You sound like you are akin to a theologin. If you ever get a chance read "The Source" by James Mitchner..Although it is historical fiction it gives you a flavor about the evolution of man into the realization of our faith today.
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Explorer72
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Usually faith and knowledge don't make good bedfellows.

You would have had an active mind and such a powerful and enduring interest with the world and people around you no matter what. You can have those things without religion. The potential for that is inside all of us.

I personally feel so free and clear headed without the spiritually, mentally and emotionally draining albatross of dogma around my neck, weighing me down with simplistic, black and white views of the universe around us. I would much rather fill my mind and sharpen my intellectual powers with the endless fascinating things that existence offers us a chance to learn about. Why clutter your mind up with religion, or gossip, or petty fleeting things that don't mean jack shit??

There are amazing truths to be uncovered through the blessing of existence!
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