Bible Question (short): Are Reason and Obedience opposites? |
Question (full): Greetings Earnest! I think all would agree with you that obedience to God is essential and necessary. However, let me ask you this question: How do you determine what it is that God is commanding? His Word is written in language, based upon grammatical rules. Don't we have to apply 'reason' to His Word in order to properly understand it? Toward the end of one of Jesus' parables, He said: Mark 4:23-24a - "'If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.' 24 'Consider carefully what you hear,' he continued..." I would agree that if one uses 'reason' to disobey God, that person is wrong. However, if one simply accepts whatever one is told, without carefully considering Scripture, that one is just as wrong. Reason and obedience are not opposites. Obedience and disobience are though. There is not one single Scripture which commands us not to use the minds which God has given us. In fact, in your very own quote of Is. 1:18 above, God commands us to come and reason with Him. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |