MIND
Nowhere in
the Bible is the “mind,” per se, described as evil or unworthy of being the
means by which God communicates with us. What the Bible does denounce is
intellectual pride, but not the intellect itself. It is humility that we need,
not ignorance. I stand opposed to arrogant and cynical intellectualism. But
that is not the same thing as using the mind God has given us, with the help of
the Holy Spirit and the instruction of Scripture, to evaluate and discern and
critically assess what is happening in both the church and the world. Whereas
some things that God says and does are transrational, insofar as they are
mysterious and often go beyond our ability to fully comprehend, God never does
things that are irrational in the sense that they might violate the fundamental
laws of logic or the reasonable and rational truths of Holy Scripture.
Sam Storms
Copied
from: Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Knowing God by Sam Storms,
© 2000, p. 203. Used by permission of NavPress – www.navpress.org. All rights reserved.
It is not
intelligence but intellectual pride that shuts people out of the kingdom.
Intelligence is a gift of God, but when it is perverted by pride it becomes a
barrier to God, because trust is in the gift rather than in the Giver.
John MacArthur
Taken
from Matthew 8-15, by John MacArthur, Moody Publishers, © 1985, p. 270.
A
renewed mind is always expressed in a submissive will.
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