Apprentice Owl Apologetics

                Welcome to my suspiciously titled post. It seems that no matter what we do, what stance we take politically, or what have you, the gremlins of social media will never be happy with us because they will always have some questions for us. Why don’t we support such and such cause, why don’t we denounce such and such group? These people will always want us to be taking their side or give them what they want to hear. They want to mold us into their selfish image for multiple reasons, be it needing to be always right, needing an echo chamber, not standing the idea of an opposing viewpoint, etc. Some of you may be expecting me to say that God is the same way and is the reason he pursues us and sends those awful door to door ministers to talk to you about Him, but you would be misguided. It is true that God pursues us, but he does not do it out of a selfish megalomania. God pursues us out of His infinite love and desire for fellowship with His creation. God tells us that we sh

                In Colossians 2:8, we are told to not fall for the traps of the philosophy of men. There are those that take this verse, other pieces of scripture, and their own misguided view of faith to try and mean that we should not study philosophy, even as a means of apologetics. I believe that this is an extreme view, just as much as the extreme view of spending all of our time studying about God, but never really pursuing a relationship with God. While I am all for the study of apologetics, Dr. Ravi Zacharias puts it best, that apologetics are the seasoning, and the gospel of Christ is the main course. However, I want to unpack this a little bit more. What I want to do here is explore what it means to me to love God with all of our minds.                 We are told to love God with all of our heart, mind, soul, and strength. Mind is second in this list, but I think that it is very easily ignored by the majority of the church. In this age of secularism and reason, the church