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Originally Posted by Light
First you say all desires proceed from the heart, then you say they are from our thoughts, which means the mind. A contradiction.
FYI, the heart does not think, it knows. So you have no idea what you are talking about.
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Pay attention! The heart is the seat of all man's faculties -- mind, will, affections and conscience.
Secondly, learn from scripture:
Gen 6:5
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Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
NASB
Thoughts proceed from a person's heart because the mind resides in the heart.
Then we have this text describing how Satan fell:
Isa 14:12-14
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"How you have fallen from heaven,
O star of the morning, son of the dawn!
You have been cut down to the earth,
You who have weakened the nations!
13
"But you said in your heart,
'I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise my throne above the stars of God,
And I will sit on the mount of assembly
In the recesses of the north.
14'I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.'
NASB
"Said in your heart" -- in other words, Satan reasoned or thought in his heart. See also in this regard Ps 14:11; Deut 7:17; Mat 24:48; Mk 2:6.
And just for the record, I know Jesus is infinitely smarter than you are. So, I choose to actually believe him -- to trust his teachings -- not just merely pay him lip service by saying, "I believe in him".
