Love the Lord Your God with All Your Mind
Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Ever thought of the noetic effects of sin, that is, how the fall affects our thinking? For sinners to love God with their minds they must first be regenerated. The faculty by which we reason has been seriously disturbed by sin and the fall The fall has seriously damaged our ability to think and reason, however, our ability to think has not been totally annihilated. It is true that pagan thinkers can add 2 + 2. You don't have to be regenerate to get a PhD in mathematics. Yet, when it comes to the knowledge of God, men and women suppress this truth, denying what is plainly seen in Creation. The Christian faith is reasonable Augustine implied that a faith without reason, is not faith, but credulity. God never calls us to make a leap of faith into the darkness. Instead, the Scriptures call us to take a leap out of the darkness, into the light. Our faith is reasonable, but it is not deemed as reasonable by the unconverted. Regeneratio