3 Reasons Why You Aren’t Allowed to Be Theologically Dumb

By: American Decency Staff

Everyone’s a theologian.

See? Even Oprah says so. And goodness knows she’s a theologian.

Everyone’s a theologian because everyone thinks something about God, even if your thought about him is that you think he’s not real. Everyone operates with a theology. There are Christian theologians, Buddhist theologians, Muslim theologians, Atheist theologians, and all other sorts.

You’re a theologian.

For the Christian, that means something unique. The Christian cannot be a passive theologian who has idle thoughts about God here and there. Christians are called to be active theologians who are constantly trying to learn more about the God we worship.

In my experience, Millennial evangelicals care far more about loving God with their hearts than they do loving God with their minds, and as a result, the God they love is nothing more than a construction of who they want God to be.

When you love God with your heart but not your mind, you end up loving the god of your imagination, not the God of the universe.

In our present age, you better know why you believe what you believe or you won’t believe it long.

This is why so many young people (and people in general, really) deny God in hard times. When the God you claim to love is a God that protects you from anything bad, you’re not worshiping the Christian God—you’re worshiping a fantasy god you’ve created in your mind that vaguely resembles the God of the Bible.

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