Taken from A Godward Life by John Piper. From Think Deeply and Clearly: A Dialogue on 2 Timothy 2:7
Timothy: Wait a minute, Paul. You tell me to think, but isn't the organ of our thinking fallen and unreliable?
Paul: Yes, your mind is fallen and fallible. Yes, it is prone to self-justifying errors.....We are fallen and depraved in every part. You cannot retreat from thinking into some other safe, untainted faculty of knowing. Take note, Timothy; even in raising the objection against thinking, you are thinking! You cannot escape the necessity of thinking. God's call is to do it well.
Timothy: But, Paul, I don't want to become a cold, impersonal intellectual.
Paul: ...You are right not to want to become impersonal. That happens when thinking is exalted above love, but note this, Timothy: The abandonment of thinking is the destruction of persons. Yes, there is more to personal relationships than thinking, but they are less human without it. God honored his image in us when he said, "Come now, let us reason together" (Isaiah 1:18). Should we do less?
Timothy: Wait a minute, Paul. You tell me to think, but isn't the organ of our thinking fallen and unreliable?
Paul: Yes, your mind is fallen and fallible. Yes, it is prone to self-justifying errors.....We are fallen and depraved in every part. You cannot retreat from thinking into some other safe, untainted faculty of knowing. Take note, Timothy; even in raising the objection against thinking, you are thinking! You cannot escape the necessity of thinking. God's call is to do it well.
Timothy: But, Paul, I don't want to become a cold, impersonal intellectual.
Paul: ...You are right not to want to become impersonal. That happens when thinking is exalted above love, but note this, Timothy: The abandonment of thinking is the destruction of persons. Yes, there is more to personal relationships than thinking, but they are less human without it. God honored his image in us when he said, "Come now, let us reason together" (Isaiah 1:18). Should we do less?
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