Isaiah 1:18 (KJV)
Come Let Us Reason Together
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
1 Corinthians 12:12-31
12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
15 Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19 If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. 28 And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? 31 Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.
John 16:7-15
The Holy Spirit Guides Us to Truth
7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 about sin, because people do not believe in me; 10 about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11 and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.
12 “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”
Fruits of the Holy Spirit
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
8 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.
9 You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.10 But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. 11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.
12 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.
14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. 15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. 17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
God has given us a mind to reason things out...The brain was created for the very purpose of thinking...He has designed the brain in a complex way for the purpose of having thoughts and to work through our thoughts and finally to reason things out...Reason and reasoning do exist....The prophet Isaiah writes that God tells us to reason and reason together...So He gives us a mind to reason with Him and about Him...Somehow we are guided to the Truth and to reasoning...And we can see things such as sin and temptations with our minds...
But the total reasoning process happens in ways that is currently unknown to man...Jon Kabat Zinn, an expert on mindfulness, says that thoughts are mental and discreet events...And he says many of our thoughts are not truth, and not fact...And he is right...Every thought we have is not a fact...Yet, we know that reason and reasoning exists, and exists universally...
Thoughts may only be mental events, but somehow the body and mind with its many parts, is guided by something or Someone to a process that we call reasoning...We are given feelings and emotions, as well as thoughts...And somehow our feelings work in a way with our thoughts, that we have the ability to get to reasoning...And the heart seems to be involved in our reasoning process...And as said earlier, this is a universal thing...The world somehow understands that there is a right and there is a wrong...So, even though thoughts are mental events, we through God's creative process, somehow get to logic and reasoning...
C. S. Lewis said, "Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind...In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking...It is merely that when the atoms inside my skull happen, for physical or chemical reasons, to arrange themselves in a certain way, this gives me, as a by-product, the sensation I call thought...But, if so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true?...It's like upsetting a milk jug and hoping that the way it splashes itself will give you a map of London...But if I can't trust my own thinking, of course I can't trust the arguments leading to Atheism, and therefore have no reason to be an Atheist, or anything else...Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God."
If our thoughts and reasoning is all random and everything we do mentally and physically is random, we can never use our minds to disbelieve in God...That is bad news for atheists if they cannot trust their own thoughts to not to believe in God...After all their thoughts would be just random if their is no reasoning or logic...However, we can reason and organize things with our minds to know what is good and right and wrong...And we can see such things as evil and sin...And we somehow have our own Truth and truths in each of our minds...
So somehow we do reason...Jesus said the Holy Spirit guides us into all the Truth...Jesus said this about the Holy Spirit guiding us to the Truth...The Holy Spirit proves to the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: about sin, because people do not believe in Him; about righteousness, because Jesus went to the Father, where we could see Him no longer; and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned...The Holy Spirit knows what is right and what is wrong and guides us...
Behind our reasoning is the Holy Spirit...And behind the Holy Spirit is God, our Creator...And the Holy Spirit is sent by God, guiding us to goodness and love and all of its fruit...Our thoughts happen in such a way that we understand that goodness, joy, peace, gentleness, and love are good things and make us feel good and righteous...
And I believe in God because I do believe that thoughts are just mental events...And in those events maybe they are somehow guided by the Spirit and Soul God has given me...But the world and universe seems organized and created in a rational and reasoned way to me...And somehow my mental events get to the point where they can reason many things out...