Yes, the battle rages on.  

But there is a Biblical mandate

     The greatest commandment of the Bible according to Jesus is to love God, not only in our heart and soul, but with our mind. (Luke 10:27). To love God with our mind means to think, not just casually, but to ponder Him with as much thinking capacity as we can muster. Piper says this idea of loving God with our mind adds fuel to the “fires of delight”. (2010, 89). Before the fall, Adam enjoyed the absolute delight of being in the company of God, walking in the cool of the evening, knowing and loving God personally. At the fall, man lost the “fires of delight”. His love for God grew cold and was lost. The cross is the only solution to the problem of all that Adam lost. By excluding God in his thinking, he also lost his delighting in Him. God still loves man. When this is revealed to him, he again naturally desires to return to his only source of delight, and once again will be found loving God. To love God is to know Him, to know Him is to love Him and is all the more reason to love Him exclusively, even exceedingly, with all our strength, with our mind. (Piper. 2010, 91). So what’s the problem?

LOVING GOD WITH OUR MINDS

INTRODUCTION

This is the story of the challenge of loving God with our minds. The ancient crisis in man’s thinking stated with the fall. There has been a battle for the mind ever since. It is to be fought in the mind and in the mind there can be victory. The way to victory is the cross. Even then the battle rages on.

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THE THEOLOGY CORONER

Here you will find discussion of various theological topics. Try to not have too much fun, or take it all too seriously, seriously.  I will be posting things in a variety of formats, but with the usual photo accompaniment, then some pontificates.  There will be discussions and/or comments 0I would think.  I don’t think this will probably be a beehive of sorts.  But it will be a place for such things, for those who are inclined to such things…like me.  And maybe you. (or someone you know).

The Theology Coroner  (and that’s the deal)