A Reason for Faith, and a Faith for Reason

When the Pharisees challenged Jesus on the meaning of the Law, Jesus answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” (Matthew 22:37).

Jesus drew these words from the Law itself. Interestingly, He summarized the content of the Law by expounding upon Moses’ intent. Moses had written, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might” (Deuteronomy 6:5). Note that final phrase: We are to love the Lord “with all [our] might.” Yet Jesus chose to say that we are to love the Lord “with all [our] mind.” That’s not a typo. That’s not a contradiction. That’s what Moses meant. We are to love the Lord with our entire being. That must include our mind.

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