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    The worst thing I ever did in my life was to trust in my own logic and reasoning....
    What you're saying here was that at one point, your logic and reasoning were flawed. So therefore, you decided not to trust them so much. But how did you decide to do that? With logic and reasoning. Specifically, yours.

    You cannot escape from your own reasoning, because it's how you decide how to escape from your own reasoning. Therefore, I suggest you may be fooling yourself when you say you distrust your own logic. You may have doubts about yourself, but you still live your life based on your own reasoning, and you cannot escape from that fact. Therefore, the rational thing to do is to make certain your logic and reason are as free from error as you can make them, rather than attempt to abandon them.

    That is why you must make room for logic and reason in your life, no matter how much faith you have, and keep them separate, I contend.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Askthepizzaguy View Post
    What you're saying here was that at one point, your logic and reasoning were flawed. So therefore, you decided not to trust them so much. But how did you decide to do that? With logic and reasoning. Specifically, yours.

    You cannot escape from your own reasoning, because it's how you decide how to escape from your own reasoning. Therefore, I suggest you may be fooling yourself when you say you distrust your own logic. You may have doubts about yourself, but you still live your life based on your own reasoning, and you cannot escape from that fact. Therefore, the rational thing to do is to make certain your logic and reason are as free from error as you can make them, rather than attempt to abandon them.

    That is why you must make room for logic and reason in your life, no matter how much faith you have, and keep them separate, I contend.
    Don't get me wrong, logic and reasoning have a very big place, I'm using it to write this after all. I tend to be pretty systematic in my approach to things. However, I wouldn't say I used my own logic to make any decisions about God. It's a matter of doctrine that not all Christians agree upon, but I would say that God made the decision for me, because being born sinners we are incapable of coming to God ourselves.

    I know you maybe weren't looking for a theological answer, but that's what appears to be the case to me having applied my logic with hindsight.
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