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Php 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable— if anything is excellent or praiseworthy— think about such things.
The Christian life is not just about doing certain things and abstaining from other things. It's also about what we think, how we reason. In fact applications are largely derived by reasoning out and inferring the scripture's intended applications. "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." John 4:24 The Christian life is not lived in blind obedience as if under the oppression of the law, but in an enlightened obedience as a son learning to take on his father's perspective. Thus for example while God commanded Abraham to kill his son, it is written that, "Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death." Heb 11:19 So let us learn to reason about the things of God. What is true? What is noble? What is right? What is pure? With these kinds of questions we should approach the scriptures and we should approach life. For example in overcoming sin, reasoning is involved. The same Greek word for "think" here is also "reckon" or "count" as in Rom 6:11 "Reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord." And unlike the faiths of many other religions which advocate blind faith, Christian faith is a faith that reasons. "Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD Isa 1:18a
Php 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable— if anything is excellent or praiseworthy— think about such things.
The Christian life is not just about doing certain things and abstaining from other things. It's also about what we think, how we reason. In fact applications are largely derived by reasoning out and inferring the scripture's intended applications. "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." John 4:24 The Christian life is not lived in blind obedience as if under the oppression of the law, but in an enlightened obedience as a son learning to take on his father's perspective. Thus for example while God commanded Abraham to kill his son, it is written that, "Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death." Heb 11:19 So let us learn to reason about the things of God. What is true? What is noble? What is right? What is pure? With these kinds of questions we should approach the scriptures and we should approach life. For example in overcoming sin, reasoning is involved. The same Greek word for "think" here is also "reckon" or "count" as in Rom 6:11 "Reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord." And unlike the faiths of many other religions which advocate blind faith, Christian faith is a faith that reasons. "Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD Isa 1:18a
