Intellectual Christianity is an attempt to be a Christian with the absence of love and care for others. It tries to use information about God’s word to compensate for the lack of love and care that God calls us to have.

When one intellectual Christian meets another, there is a false sense of safety, that we must be right because we both are the same. When those two become a group, and form a body, group think sets in and it becomes the norm, that we don’t need to love or care or suffer for God, we simply just need to keep talking about God’s word and information around it.

Intellectual Christians try to obtain salvation on technicality because they can’t grasp the love aspect of God’s word. They are like the husband who does not know who to be affectionate with his wife or kids, and works a lot of hours He buys them things to compensate for his absence and lack of attention and care. That never is a replacement for the true act of love and the members of the family usually see right through it.

The greatest example of the intellectual Christian is the pharisees. They were the epitome of that group think mind frame. The question is how do we transform with God and His Holy Spirit from a intellectual believer, to a loving and caring believer?