If thy 'head' [your intellect] offend thee, cut it off; for it is better, not merely to enter the Kingdom of Heaven as a child, but to enter it as an imbecile, rather than with your whole intellect to be cast into hell.
-G. K. Chesterton
How sad when one is blinded by their own "intellect" or the supposed "intellect" of others. I would argue that the proud and arrogant are more susceptible to this potential side effect, but I've seen it fall upon the humble thinker as well. The human mind is Fallen and flawed yet many trust in a broken tool in their feeble attempt to build a finite set of beliefs in which to contain all the mysteries of the Infinite. When this proves to be impossible they deduce that there can't be an Infinite God, revealed in the Word and made flesh in Jesus Christ for they themselves and no other man can fully capture and contain this Infinite Triune God within the confines of imperfect human intellect.
Where faith is needed to properly fill the gaps in man's limited intellect and pool of knowledge many an "intellect" instead turns to science to fill these holes. While science is an effective tool in itself it is no more appropriate to stand in the place of faith than a perfect baseball is appropriate to plug the basketball sized hole in a sinking ship. Yet the blinded intellect unwittingly says, "I have found that baseball to be perfect in its design so if it cannot plug the hole we're clearly meant to sink." Or worse yet some point to the truths of the baseball to try and prove that the ship clearly doesn't exist. In both cases the man who puts science or man's intelligence on the throne of God is doomed to sink whereas the man who drags his ship to God's throne and in so doing asks the builder of both the ship and the baseball to fix the hole will inevitably make his proper destination with God's help.
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