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Originally Posted by kittygilchrist
If you can outsmart your maker, you're in good company. Not the company I want to be in...
post edited for clarification. A friend offered me a chance to make my assertion more clear..
indeed, we have a brain. By design, faith is not a matter of intellect, or only smarts would get us to God. Faith and intellect can be/often are mutually exclusive. In my case, faith was a conscious decision that intellect could not earn entry to knowledge of divinity. The brain can't go where faith can go.
No intention to say I don't want to be with people who think otherwise...saying I can't trust my intellect more than my knowing. It's another realm.
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I must have been unclear. I am a believer. I don't think we can or should try to outsmart our maker. My point is that we must all learn and understand what we believe for ourselves, not blindly follow a doctrine because someone told us to or because we were born into it.