God is a God of reason (Isaiah 1:18), and He has created us as rational creatures in His image (Genesis 1:27; Colossians 3:10), so surely He intends for us to utilize the gift of reason. God wants us to take an intelligent step of faith in the light of good evidence, not a blind leap of faith into the dark (see John 20:27).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Bible is filled with exhortations to use reason. Jesus commanded His followers, \u201cLove the Lord your God\u2026with all your mind\u201d (Matthew 22:37). The apostle Paul taught, \u201cWhatever is true\u2026think about these things\u201d (Philippians 4:8), and he reasoned with Jews and philosophers (Acts 17:17,22-31). Church elders are instructed to refute those who contradict sound doctrine (Titus 1:9). Paul says he was appointed for \u201cthe defense of the gospel\u201d (Philippians 1:16). Jude urged, \u201cContend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints\u201d (Jude 3). Peter commanded us to be \u201cprepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you\u201d (1 Peter 3:15). All these activities involve the use of God-given reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pearl of Wisdom:<\/strong> We were designed by a reasoning God to be reasoning people. It is in our own best interests to use that reason to test the competing truth claims that daily confront us<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (5\u00b7Minute APOLOGETICS for<\/em> TODAY by Ron Rhodes)<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Be Reasonable God is a God of reason (Isaiah 1:18), and He has created us as rational creatures in His image (Genesis 1:27; Colossians 3:10), so surely He intends for us to utilize the gift of reason. God wants us to take an intelligent step of faith in the light of good evidence, not a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bien-giao-apologetics","category-sunday-school"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4503,"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501\/revisions\/4503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westhoustonvbc.org\/ws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}