The first battle between faith and reason occured in the Garden of Eden between Satan and Eve. The world's reason is insufficient. People who use the world's reason apply this to the things of God. They make decisions based on reason not faith.
1 Corinthians 1:18-21--For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate." Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
1 Corinthians 1:27-29--But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things--and the things that are not--to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.
God's message appears foolish to those who are perishing. To the world, God's message seems absurd. But God has chosen the weak things.
Many people operate under the idea that life is about doing more good than bad. This is man's "clever approach." Cults, too, are performance based; acceptance is based on performance. But rejecting/refusing God's word is just as foolish.
What are they to perform? How much? How long? How do they know when they've performed? When will they know that the quality of their performance meets the standard for their god?
Nobody can come to know Jehovah God Almighty without knowing Jesus Christ.
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1 Cor 2:12-16--We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment: "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
The way of reason dethrones God. People reason set up their own values and standards. This leads to destruction. Believers do this too. When God tells us no and we say yes, we dethrone God. The way of fiath requires our presonal acceptance of Jesus Christ and His atoning work on the cross.
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