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Direct Answer Based on Bercot’s teaching, being “Bible-believing” can still become spiritually dangerous when it is paired with shallow thinking, because it can lead to foolish claims, wrong judgments, and public reproach on Christ. Confidence in the Bible is not the same as loving God “with all your mind,” which includes critical thinking and evidence-based discernment.

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• He says it “particularly bothered” him that Y2K hysteria was “fomented by conservative Bible-believing Christians,” not liberal or Catholic churches, and “for the most part, neither was the world.”
• He feared Christians would be a “laughingstock… when Y2K comes and none of these predictions… come true,” which later happened.
• He identifies the “core problem”: “most of us were not thinking Christians,” and connects this to the command to love God “with all your… mind.”
• He says many Christians love God “with their hearts, but not with their minds,” and “don’t even know what critical thinking is.”
• He warns shallow thinking leads Christians to “wrongfully condemn other Christians” and “continually bring reproach on the name of Christ.”