Emotional Reasoning and Truth
How do we identify truth? My education compels me to rephrase this question a bit... "how do we Identify what is most likely to be true based on the information that we have available?" The answer? The scientific method, of course! Sadly, some members of the church have come to the erroneous conclusion that when it comes to beliefs of a theological nature that you should neglect the scientific method and instead use "feelings" to determine what is true. This is absolutely ridiculous to most people, so where did this reasoning come from in the first place?! This faulty reasoning is loosely based on the scripture in Galatians 5:22 "...but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance..." Some people who may not have much experience with what a spiritual experience is actually like, may have read this scripture have mistakenly come to the conclusion that if you feel any of the above mentioned ...