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?
