Thinking Biblically- John W. Robbins - The Trinity Review; Sep-Dec-2015
What Is Thinking?
The Definition of Thinking
1. To form or have in mind.
2. To intend or plan.
3. To have an opinion or to regard as.
4. To reflect on, to ponder. The list goes on until definition nine which is,
9. To subject to the processes of logical thought.
All of these words convey the general meaning to make judgments, to reason, to subject to the processes of logical thought.
In fact the Bible describes animals as having souls. They are conscious, they are aware, but they do not think. Thinking involves understanding. The Scripture says in many verses that the animals do not understand, and that is a clue to what the image of God is. Words tag thoughts. We use words to refer to ideas. Thinking involves words. It is impossible for us to think without words.
Who thinks? Persons think. It is thinking that makes a person. God thinks. […] groups do not think either. Only persons think […]
Remember that in our working definition, thinking was connecting one idea with another. Seeing connections between ideas and drawing inferences is involved in thinking.
There is nothing too great for words.
[…] logic is the way God thinks [God has no need for logic], logic steers the universe and, in fact, it created the universe― John 1:1-3 [Logos does not mean Logic].
A word is an expression of thought, and it is thought that controls the universe, nothing else.
We do not learn about ourselves through introspection. We learn about ourselves through Scripture.
If we want to know ourselves, we have to know Scripture.
Edwards also wrote, “It cannot be said that we come to the knowledge of any part of Christian truth by the light of nature, it is only the Word of God contained in the Old and New Testament, which teaches us Christian divinity.
If this be Gnosticism, let us make the most of it.
Edwards says salvation comes through knowledge. Faith is knowledge. [Faith is not knowledge. All knowledge is acquired thru faith. Faith is mental assent, knowledge is information. This is a serious error in Robbins’ epistemology.]
Question: Are babies capable of thinking?
Answer: Babies are not capable of thinking as we have defined it.
Question: Isn’t it true that Christianity is not a religion, but a relationship?
Answer: If you read the Bible, you will see that the command is always to believe the Word.  How am I to be saved? “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved” (Acts 16:31) Judas had a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It did him no good,
Question: Does not Romans 1 say that we can discern the existence of God from the creation? 
Answer: Romans 1 appears to say that, but it does not say that. Christ denies that anyone knows God except through Him, so any construction of the philosophers that purports to prove the existence of God is a figment of their imagination. The arguments that have been constructed to prove the existence of God should not be seen as aids to evangelism or the Christian religion, but as impediments.
Paul says in 1 Corinthians 1:21, “The world by wisdom did not know God ….” Paul in the first four chapters of 1 Corinthians is intent on denying natural theology. In fact, he is intent on denying any source of knowledge except Scripture.
Jesus says in Matthew 11:27, “No one knows the Father except the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him.”

If it is true that you are what you eat, it is also true to say that you are what you know. The mind is nourished by the truth of being as the body is nourished by food. […] in all our knowing we are enlightened by the truth which is God […]
Rudolf Harvey; The Primacy of Truth; Franciscan Studies; v9; n3; 1949; p263

[…] Kierkegaard makes it clear that truth is a person ‒ Christ.

If truth is to be taught, the teacher must provide the learner with the condition for understanding the truth. The teacher must transform, not reform, the learner. But this is impossible unless the teacher is the very God who created the learner.

[…] Climacus proceeds with the assumption that man is created by God and that when God created him He must have given him the condition for understanding the truth. […]  at one point man, obviously through his own fault, fell into untruth. […]  Since man is now bound in this condition and unable to work himself loose, he thus needs a saviour. The saviour is the one who desires to teach man truth […]

Having ‘discovered’ that if truth is to be learned it must must be given through certain acts of God, as we have mentioned, and received with certain capacities that God likewise gives […]
Matthew G. Jacoby; Kierkegaard on Truth; Religious Studies; v38; n1; 2002

If the Christian truth were simply a message Christ brought to us, then its content would be essentially detachable from his person, and his coming to bring it would be of vanishing importance ― merely one way of conveying to us a message that we would in principle be capable of grasping in his absence. But for the Christian, the truth is the person of Christ, so his coming is of absolutely decisive significance.
Stephen Mulhall; Faith & Reason; 1994; p73

In Arminian theology… God can only make salvation “possible”; He cannot actually save individual men unless they want to be saved.
Cornelius van Til; The Defense of the Faith; 1967; p5

There is indeed nothing more ridiculous than to imagine that any motion or modification of matter should produce thought.
Thomas Reid; (1710-1796); Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man; 1764

Later in the same prayer, Jesus declares that God’s word is truth (John 17:17), but again, since Jesus himself is the present form of God’s word in this narrative discourse, this also entails a declaration about himself.
Andrew T. Lincoln; Truth on Trial; 2000; p224

Q: What do you say to the atheists who demand evidence or proof of the existence of a transcendent reality?
A: The hidden assumption behind such a statement is often that faith is belief without evidence. Therefore, since there’s no scientific evidence for the divine, we should not believe in God. But that statement itself ― that evidence is necessary ―  holds a further hidden premise that all evidence worth examining has to be scientific evidence. And beneath that assumption, there’s the deeper worldview ― it’s a kind of dogma ― that science is the only reliable way to truth. But that itself is a faith statement. It’s a deep faith commitment because there’s no way you can set up a series of scientific experiments to prove that science is the only reliable guide to truth. It’s a creed.
John Haught; The Atheist Delusion; Salon; Dec. 2007