Cool quote: “If you believe that faith is emotional, and your emotions condemn you through the damage they’ve sustained, then you’re in a quandary about how to believe. If you believe that faith is intellectual, and your thoughts condemn you on the basis of logical reflection on experience, then you’re in another quandary about how to believe. But when you realize that faith is primarily willful, you are free to exercise your faith in agreement with Scripture even if your emotions or intellect have difficulty getting on board with the exercise of faith. This doesn’t mean that God is anti-intellectual, but that faith often propels us into the realm of the transrational, that which is beyond the ability of the intellect to fully apprehend. The consistent experience of Christians is not ‘I believe because I understand’ but ‘I understand because I believe.’”
Monday, November 19, 2007
I Believe
Cool quote: “If you believe that faith is emotional, and your emotions condemn you through the damage they’ve sustained, then you’re in a quandary about how to believe. If you believe that faith is intellectual, and your thoughts condemn you on the basis of logical reflection on experience, then you’re in another quandary about how to believe. But when you realize that faith is primarily willful, you are free to exercise your faith in agreement with Scripture even if your emotions or intellect have difficulty getting on board with the exercise of faith. This doesn’t mean that God is anti-intellectual, but that faith often propels us into the realm of the transrational, that which is beyond the ability of the intellect to fully apprehend. The consistent experience of Christians is not ‘I believe because I understand’ but ‘I understand because I believe.’”
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