Truth, righteousness, readiness, faith, salvation, and the word of God.
Faith. Recently, Bill Nye and Ken Ham had a debate over creation/young earth verses science/big bang.
The responses are simply that Christians must be ignorant in order to believe what they believe. As an engineer, I have to challenge that statement. What Ken Ham brings up in his debate is that numerous Christians believe numerous different things. But the one thing they must do is put their faith in Christ. Salvation is based on their faith in Christ, not the age of the world.
This is perhaps the best statement that Ken Ham brought out during the debate. Bill made some very compelling arguments about the age of the earth, not the least of which is tree rings (no carbon dating required).
So how does this rock our faith? Well to be sure, it should knock our faith. The historical records of the Bible only indicate that the earth is 6000 years old. As a Christian I have two answers for this. I'm not sure if either makes a difference. The central point of Christianity is Christ.
When I boil it all down I find that if you don't read it for yourself and attempt to understand it for yourself, then you will not find God. If you seek Him, you will find Him.
So the idea that Christians are putting their heads in the sand on science can be equally turned to say atheists are putting their heads in the sand on spiritual matters. Of the two, I find spiritual matters to be infinitely more relevant. For if I'm wrong about the scientific age of the earth, I am nothing more than wrong. But if an atheist is wrong about who Jesus Christ is, then they are looking at something much worse than an F on a report card.
And of the two faith models (one that says this is all chance, vs one that says this is created), there is a lot more scientific evidence supporting intelligent design (creator).
The responses are simply that Christians must be ignorant in order to believe what they believe. As an engineer, I have to challenge that statement. What Ken Ham brings up in his debate is that numerous Christians believe numerous different things. But the one thing they must do is put their faith in Christ. Salvation is based on their faith in Christ, not the age of the world.
This is perhaps the best statement that Ken Ham brought out during the debate. Bill made some very compelling arguments about the age of the earth, not the least of which is tree rings (no carbon dating required).
So how does this rock our faith? Well to be sure, it should knock our faith. The historical records of the Bible only indicate that the earth is 6000 years old. As a Christian I have two answers for this. I'm not sure if either makes a difference. The central point of Christianity is Christ.
When I boil it all down I find that if you don't read it for yourself and attempt to understand it for yourself, then you will not find God. If you seek Him, you will find Him.
So the idea that Christians are putting their heads in the sand on science can be equally turned to say atheists are putting their heads in the sand on spiritual matters. Of the two, I find spiritual matters to be infinitely more relevant. For if I'm wrong about the scientific age of the earth, I am nothing more than wrong. But if an atheist is wrong about who Jesus Christ is, then they are looking at something much worse than an F on a report card.
And of the two faith models (one that says this is all chance, vs one that says this is created), there is a lot more scientific evidence supporting intelligent design (creator).
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