Greetings to all,
I remember speaking with a man who was afraid to become a Christian because he didn't want to lose his ability to reason. I thought it was interesting that he thought that way...as he saw that Christians were no longer able to think rationally.
And he did have a point. At least in some circles...the idea of taking on the mind of Christ means to lose one's own mind to some extent...or to a great extent...depending on the zeal one brings to the table.
Now Don Quixote was a novel about a rich man who fantasized so much about the novels he was reading that he lost his mind and began to think he was a fictional character come to life. he then pursued his chivalric dreams of traveling the world as a knight...tilting at imaginary foes (including windmills).
What I want to show is that there is this kind of syndrome among those believers who have been doctrinally conditioned to think they are required to believe certain things...even fantastical things...in order to please God. These believe they must enter into the imaginary world of a "positional" theology. So then attacking a windmill is good...if it represents evil.
There is not a lot then to distinguish, in some cases, one who loses ones own mind for Christ...or just lose one's mind in a religious offering in futility.
When we take on the mind of Christ...is that at the expense of a sound mind? Some think so.
I hope to investigate this phenomenon in this thread.
I remember speaking with a man who was afraid to become a Christian because he didn't want to lose his ability to reason. I thought it was interesting that he thought that way...as he saw that Christians were no longer able to think rationally.
And he did have a point. At least in some circles...the idea of taking on the mind of Christ means to lose one's own mind to some extent...or to a great extent...depending on the zeal one brings to the table.
Now Don Quixote was a novel about a rich man who fantasized so much about the novels he was reading that he lost his mind and began to think he was a fictional character come to life. he then pursued his chivalric dreams of traveling the world as a knight...tilting at imaginary foes (including windmills).
What I want to show is that there is this kind of syndrome among those believers who have been doctrinally conditioned to think they are required to believe certain things...even fantastical things...in order to please God. These believe they must enter into the imaginary world of a "positional" theology. So then attacking a windmill is good...if it represents evil.
There is not a lot then to distinguish, in some cases, one who loses ones own mind for Christ...or just lose one's mind in a religious offering in futility.
When we take on the mind of Christ...is that at the expense of a sound mind? Some think so.
I hope to investigate this phenomenon in this thread.
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