On Reason and Belief by Jenn Zhu
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The Relationship Between Will Reason Belief Jenn Zhu
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modern world. The truth is that the original contents of the
Bible was written by the disciples when they just started the
Christianity according to their then understanding of what
preached by Jesus who is basically a divine person incarnated
in a human body, which is what all Christians have believed.
And it may be possible to modify those contents under the
guidance of the Spirit by those brilliant disciples who can
receive the revelation from the Spirit or God. And the similar
thing is with the Chinese belief in Heaven, and might in some
other spiritual beliefs. So it is the will of people that would
keep them on this course of tedious and continuing search for
truth to maintain their faith on their beliefs who will definitely
compensate them greatly in return.
As probably having been mentioned in other chapters, not
only human have will, animals would have will too. However,
since human’s will is empowered by their belief, so it could be
much more powerful than that of animals. The will would give
the power for human to make decision and initiate action, at
the same time, it tells their intention and plans to do things.
Thus, anything created by human or have received influence
from human will simultaneously come out the will of
themselves and go with own intentions, just as the Universe
created the human according to its own mechanism, which is
also indicated in Christianity that God created human
according to its own form, as well as in ancient Greek
mythology that Prometheus used the mud of earth to create
human since he knew that the mud contained the wisdom of
the god. So in this civilization, things created by humans
would possess their own will, and would go with their own
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