how does favoring a scripture confirm lack of thought?
In your message 24 upthread you have these two statements together:
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As far as thinking for myself...yes, I DO think for myself within the context of my belief. One of my favorite scriptures is this one:
Proverbs 3:5-6~Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
It is not your favoring a piece of scripture that confirms a lack of thought but the juxtaposition of the two statements.
That first statement says that you do think. In this context this means that you order and analyze your own thoughts, experiences and understandings.
Then you immediately write the second statement, one of your favorite scriptures, like it was some kind of example verifying your fist statement. But this piece of scripture from Proverbs says quite openly to
not think. Do not order and analyze your own thoughts, experiences and understandings, but, instead of thinking, "trust" in the lord. And it gets worse still since trusting in the lord without thinking means you are taking someone else’s interpretation of what the lord said and wants without reference to your own understanding.
So we have you saying that you indeed do think.
And your example of this is a favored scripture that says,"don’t think."
There is conflict between these two statements which does not make any sense.
But, it's OK since this is expected from religion. Most religious people have no problem living by conflicting statements since most them take the Proverbs injunction to heart and don't think.
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