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Thinking thinking- now more doing doing doing...
I am rational, and focusing on my own style for 28 days... I am thinking about what the book says on pg 97 (rational style), only when explanations are sufficient, does faith have a solid ground. Last week I started reading Matthew for the first time with a small group that has also read 3 Colors. Matthew starts out very rationally and it is helping me with my quest to "know" Jesus. I need to know the details and facts for it all to make sense in my mind... I have stopped trying to rationalize it all in my own head, and started to gain knowledge by reading and discussing with a great group of supportive people.
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Hi Amy
As a fellow rational believer, the trans-rational (over and above rational not irrational) concept presented on the page to which you refer has been a fantastically liberating idea for me. I must be able to believe in concrete facts. It is a precondition for me to do anything. However, if I do not live as though "now I only know in part" I am saying that I fully know God and that there is nothing left for me to learn (I am arrogant and stupid in one go - quite an achievement :-) Further more, I will only come to know more if I do and then experience more, so that I have fresh perceptions that I can test and merge into my understanding.
Another way I've been looking at it is that when I think, I think about what (I know in part that) God has done or is doing. When I do, I do what (I know in part) God 'thinks' is a good idea. So I cannot expect to know the mind of God if I do not act upon and experience God's theories for my life or living generally.
Hope this makes some rational sense ;-)
Blessings
AJ