My soul prefers to know why and how someone believes what they do. It is not enough for me to hear that someone just believes something to be true. Thats how we ended up with so many religious beliefs that contradict evidence and right reason, because people merely believe what they want to believe.
im not too interested in what reason thinks grin
I want to understand what God says…
reason as a theme was started by plato
…he understands that as an over soul or daemon leading the soul…
in the greek view the soul is a god or demon guiding humans and in fact is Substance , being, first cause, prime mover.. an ugly machine.
…the greek philosophy has no tolerance for anything deemed weak , (such as a human or God who loves!) and their substance reflects that..
so their philosophy (=theology) downplays sensation, experience, feeling and love,
relies on abstract thought instead —— as being. thus, on that pattern, their type gods are unaffected and do not care… their universe is matter, their gaia is matter, all of these are accidental causes. and that a god would love or be affected is scoffed at by them. this is why the greeks so feared fate. many here view God as a mind like that. it’s scary.
reason or mind as daemon is basically
an expression of that greek theology which claims to be neutral, and all modern philosophy comes from that dead root..
from there comes the view of causality moderns know, and often (wrongly) attribute to God…. when what it is, is a description of the satanic reality.
aristotle’s substance / being, which augustine sadly adopted, comes from that. the tao is based on it. egyptian theology is based on it…augustine glued it to christianity. it is the reality (in many forms) of those fallen angels (thoth etc, cf. hieroglyphs) == Egypt.
so its not so simple as, to say, ‘reason’ is how we know stuff. the real question is are we knowing from God or from the mind adam glued to us ?
the choice of reason has to do with theology. reason is a god in greek philosophy, a theological entity, not just a concept. an idea for the greeks is basically a god or a construct-god…. and each represents qualities.
the greek aeons/archons/gods/being/the ‘one’ have everything to do with aristotle’s substance or prime mover and zero to do with christianity.
we see this in hieroglyphs as well, where a glyph indicates when a ‘god’ (read fallen angel!) is referred to or when a construct ‘god’. plotinus from whom augustine got his greek ‘One’ lays out quite well the hypostases of substance, and augustine got it there. as does aquinas in his summa. many church fathers and later theologians were deeply glued to the greek view. Augustine’s project was a huge overlay of pagan theology onto christianity. Because it provided christianity with a logic he explicitly said it lacked. he never understood how God communicates and instead glued plato onto christianity.
the overlay of greek ’reason’ onto christianity has resulted in a mess.
today reason is placed in the front seat with the soul as servant to it.
reason needs to take a back seat and serve the soul in the front seat listening to God.