Faith and reason\ Athority

[excaliber]

Dose faith and reason overide the athority of religious teachers over the individual christian.
For example if your priest tells you to do something, but your intilect tells
You that it is unwise… are you obeying God by listening to your intilect and using your God given thinking ability… or are you disobeying God by not listening to the priest?

 

[HoistedSheep]

This depends heavily on the situation. You should always think for yourself, this is a given. But as a Catholic, you should use your reason and intellect to decipher what impulses are destructive and which follow God’s will. This way, you can use your intellect to overcome destructive impulses driven by irrational emotions like lust or anger. This is where your priest comes in. His aim is not to make these decisions for you but to guide your own decisions. Your priest can point you toward moral truths, which come straight from the teachings of Christ, and you can use your intellect and reason to compare your decisions to these truths and decipher what path to take. Think of it this way, you are driven by both your conscience and intellect, your sense and your will. Your priest can help you reconcile these two, but it is entirely up to you how to ensure that your intellect or will is driven by your conscience.

 

[RyanEdmond]

Dose faith and reason overide the athority of religious teachers over the individual christian.
For example if your priest tells you to do something, but your intilect tells
You that it is unwise… are you obeying God by listening to your intilect and using your God given thinking ability… or are you disobeying God by not listening to the priest?

What do you mean by “your priest tells you to do something?”

If anyone, priest or no, instructs you to do something, of course you must use the reason which God gave you to understand what is being ordered, whether it might harm yourself or another, for instance. Priest are only servants of God, and as humans struggle no less with sin. So a priest can make poor choices, as can a lay person.

But I don’t know that I have ever been commanded by a priest to do anything. I have received spiritual direction, in the form of advice many times.

Perhaps you can elaborate on your question.

 

[StrawberryJam]

Dose faith and reason overide the athority of religious teachers over the individual christian.
For example if your priest tells you to do something, but your intilect tells
You that it is unwise… are you obeying God by listening to your intilect and using your God given thinking ability… or are you disobeying God by not listening to the priest?

Not sure how to answer due to your inability to know how to spell.

 

[HoistedSheep]

Not sure how to answer due to your inability to know how to spell.

This is what your signature says: “There is nothing that a non believer can not do that a believer can do. You can not tell me that believers have some special way of doing good. They can’t and don’t have any superiority in goodness”

Now compare this to what you have just said to the original poster. True, a theist won’t necessarily be kinder than a non-believer, but his belief will at least encourage him to keep his patience and try. I mean this charitably. This cynical, elitist attitude neither helps the person you address, nor does it help you do the good you are capable of. It violates the Golden Rule, the one rule you acknowledge we all believe in.