Some believe that to accept God is to surrender ones brain and mind and bow to superior intelligence.
HuH?????????
An intelligence superior to someone who has surrendered their brain is not really saying all that much.
Others believe that IF God exists, God gave us a brain to use and keep as our inheritance and birthright...and that it does not matter whether or not we accept or even understand God.
Well if God exists and if we are created, looks like God gave us a brain. If not to use, exactly what is the purpose of the most expensive organ?
How ever so far the only definition you have given for "accepting God" seems to be becoming brain dead.
I'm not sure that is what you really mean.
People throw stuff like "accepting God" around constantly as though that has any meaning. Wouldn't be a good idea though to pause and try to figure out just what it does mean?
We have no way of ever knowing that God is speaking to us. We may well believe that is the cause, but if we are honest, we must admit that it is possible we are wrong.
You said:
Personally, I believe that God desires that we make an attempt to acknowledge that we ourselves individually and collectively do not know everything nor will we ever and that it is ok to be humble and in awe.
The question is, should someone stop at that point?
Should we say "Okay, I can't know everything and so I won't try to know everything"?
Why would GOD want us to admit we cannot know everything?
Wouldn't GOD rather we said "I don't know everything yet!"
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