If it was intellectual, Christ wouldn’t have chosen uneducated fisherman, but learned Pharisees.
I’m not talking about educated vs. uneducated (though there is nothing wrong with being educated—Christ didn’t reject the Pharisees because of their education, but because of their hypocrisy and lack of virtue). I’m talking about making conscious voluntary intellectual decisions with the mind over vague and involuntary emotional experiences, like sorcerers use. It is a mark of true faith to continue to choose to follow the commandments of Christ even when your soul feels dry.
So true.
Which is another bit of evidence why He’d have nothing to do with setting up a bunch of bureaucratic political intellectual elitists to head yet another RELIGIOUS BUREAUCRACY to lord it over the serfs.
Sheesh.