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Debate Score:16
Arguments:15
Total Votes:17
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It is okay for Christians to think for themselves.

A religious person who shall not be named spoke out against freee thinking. Said religious person claimed that free thinking and thinking for yourself is a sin that leads you away from Christ. I content that this is not true. The Bible says in 1 Thessalonians 5:21 to test everything and hold fast to what is good. What does it mean to test everything and hold fast to what is good? It means to think for yourself, question everything, and once you find the good and wholesome truth, you hold fast to that. For the record, to hold fast is to hold onto.

I agree.

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I disagree.

Side Score: 6
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Personally I believe it depends on when and what Christians are thinking for themselves. It depends on what subject matter they are thinking for themselves. Some topics yes they can, some topics are up to interpretation (gay marriage, creation, worship ideas) while others are not (salvation, baptism, morality).

Side: I agree.

Now that I can agree to. .

Side: I agree.

St. Thomas Aquinas stressed for believers to think. A good Christian should think.

Side: I agree.
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I am sorry but "Christians to think for themselves" pretty much means making they own bullshit from bible...

Side: I disagree.

That's a paradox.

If the bible isn't doing the "thinking" for you, then you aren't a Christian.

Side: I disagree.
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No true Scotsman fallacy. Anyone can be a freethinker. .

Side: I agree.
Intangible(4934) Disputed
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Owh! So I need to be a scotsman for that statement to be true? That's inane.

Side: I disagree.
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no, once you do you won't believe anymore......................................................

Side: I disagree.
trumpet_guy(503) Clarified
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And as for the third point, it deserveth to be a little stood upon, and not to be lightly passed over; for if any man shall think by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things to attain that light, whereby he may reveal unto himself the nature or will of God, then, indeed, is he spoiled by vain philosophy; for the contemplation of God’s creatures and works produceth (having regard to the works and creatures themselves) knowledge, but having regard to God no perfect knowledge, but wonder, which is broken knowledge. And, therefore, it was most aptly said by one of Plato’s school, “That the sense of man carrieth a resemblance with the sun, which (as we see) openeth and revealeth all the terrestrial globe; but then, again, it obscureth and concealeth the stars and celestial globe: so doth the sense discover natural things, but it darkeneth and shutteth up divine.” And hence it is true that it hath proceeded, that divers great learned men have been heretical, whilst they have sought to fly up to the secrets of the Deity by this waxen wings of the senses. And as for the conceit that too much knowledge should incline a man to atheism, and that the ignorance of second causes should make a more devout dependence upon God, which is the first cause; first, it is good to ask the question which Job asked of his friends: “Will you lie for God, as one man will lie for another, to gratify him?"

Bacon, Francis. The Advancement of Learning [Book I]. 1605.

Side: I agree.