Comments on: Your Mind Matters 2: Why Use Our Minds? http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/06/your-mind-matters-2-why-use-our-minds/ From InterVarsity's Emerging Scholars Network Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:51:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sergey http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/06/your-mind-matters-2-why-use-our-minds/comment-page-1/#comment-1310 Sergey Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:34:09 +0000 http://blog.emergingscholars.org/?p=1092#comment-1310 Can humans think like God? well, humans obviously are made in the image of God. Therefore, we can think like him if we abide in him according to John 15. Abide means 'to hang out" meaning if abide with Christ then we will be like Christ. If you do not believe or abide with him then you will not think like him. The holy spirits refines the mind to think like Christ because it is that way that we can be like him. If a scientist believes in God, then he can reflect the image God intended. God wants us to use our minds because our minds are his craftsmanship. he put quirks, personalities and intellect to show people who God is like. Can humans think like God?

well, humans obviously are made in the image of God. Therefore, we can think like him if we abide in him according to John 15.

Abide means ‘to hang out” meaning if abide with Christ then we will be like Christ. If you do not believe or abide with him then you will not think like him.

The holy spirits refines the mind to think like Christ because it is that way that we can be like him.

If a scientist believes in God, then he can reflect the image God intended.

God wants us to use our minds because our minds are his craftsmanship. he put quirks, personalities and intellect to show people who God is like.

]]> By: Daryl Climenhaga http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/06/your-mind-matters-2-why-use-our-minds/comment-page-1/#comment-972 Daryl Climenhaga Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:26:48 +0000 http://blog.emergingscholars.org/?p=1092#comment-972 It strikes me that this viewpoint (that scientific inquiry "thinks God's thoughts after him") is sharply at odds with contemporary scientific inquiry. An impression from a non-scientist: such inquiry today requires the suspension of belief in God as part of the process, and thus requires the exercise of belief that God is not part of the process. It strikes me that this viewpoint (that scientific inquiry “thinks God’s thoughts after him”) is sharply at odds with contemporary scientific inquiry. An impression from a non-scientist: such inquiry today requires the suspension of belief in God as part of the process, and thus requires the exercise of belief that God is not part of the process.

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