Hearts and minds

Matthew 22:37
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

James 4:8
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Matthew 9:4
But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

I heard a talk the other day about how scripture deals with hearts and minds. The thrust of the talk was that we can accept things in our thinking, but those things may not necessarily sway us to act accordingly, while those things we believe in our hearts we deem true and will act due to those things, they are as real to us as can be. This makes our hearts where our worldview resides in all we deem to be true, no matter what may be bouncing around in our minds. Thoughts?

@kellyjay said
Thoughts?

@kellyjay said
Matthew 22:37
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

@rajk999 said
How does someone show that they love God / Christ?
They keep the commandments, chief of which is to love your neighbor.

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wil ...[text shortened]... s: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
(John 14:21-24 KJV)

@kellyjay said
I suggest you take it up with the speaker of those words and the context that they were spoken in.

You could also start your own conversation about what you want to say.

@rajk999 said
Did I ask you a question?

@kellyjay said
Did you post in a thread about a topic and change the subject to something unrelated?

@rajk999 said
Not really. You did not post what Jesus said about how one can 'love God with all their heart'. You posted some church nonsense again, ignoring Jesus completely.

You posted this nonsense .... those things we believe in our hearts we deem true and will act due to those things, they are as real to us as can be. This makes our hearts where our worldview resides in all ...[text shortened]... loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. (John 14:21 KJV)

@fmf said
The cognitive functions you are attributing to the heart do not happen in the heart. All cognitive functions take place in the mind.

Pretending otherwise might suit your ideology, but that doesn't mean it gets us closer to objective truths about the human condition.

@kellyjay said
I started a thread on hearts and minds, you can read the title if you want. Every thing I said was related to hearts and minds and you went someplace else and you still have not said anything about the topic. You know you can start your own threads and talk about what ever you want. Just saying!

You again are pushing something about the church I go to without knowing wh ...[text shortened]... eing deceitful again saying things you know nothing about. The lake of fire 🔥 will have liars in it.

@suzianne said
Reacting to the gist of what he's saying would be far more interesting than this pedantic banter.

My idea about social justice originates in my brain, so you can take it or leave it. By contrast, my idea about the rich paying more in taxes originates in my kidneys and the one about loan forgiveness originates in my pancreas so that makes those ideas special and different from the one about social injustice.

Stating something false about where certain cognitive functions occur, obscures the nature of faith rather than elucidates it. Just keeping it real, that's all,

@fmf said
It's not pedantic at all. The bogus separation of cognitive functions and the attribution of some of them to a different organ in the body is a rhetorical gimmick and, if some spurious ideological musings are then founded on it, the whole exercise is rendered disingenuous. This is not an example of pedantry.