'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.'
All the gospel authors agree that Jesus used the word 'mind' in His summary of this Old Testament verse (instead of the word 'might'). The Greek word used by the authors is dianoia (Matt. 22:37): a word used to describe our 'minds,' our 'understanding,' or our 'intelligence.'
Here in Matthew's gospel, the word is used to describe the 'place where thinking occurs.' Jesus's intentional word exchange raises the bar for us as Christians. We are not only to love God with all our heart, soul, and might, but we are also commanded to us our mind and our intelligence to understand the truth of Christianity This effort is an act of worship."1
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Chad
Footnote:
1. J. Warner Wallace, Forensic Faith, p. 34.
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