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[__ Science __ ] The Battle for Biblical Authority
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JohnDB
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I think that her article starts off great...then she goes off into a tangent about evolution and loses her "umph".
Such a shame too...not that I support evolution but it's relevance to what she first started talking about reduces it's efficacy.
The Bible needs to be the authority, not our ignoring or favoring of particular passages.
She said a mouthful right with that.
Such a shame too...not that I support evolution but it's relevance to what she first started talking about reduces it's efficacy.
The Bible needs to be the authority, not our ignoring or favoring of particular passages.
She said a mouthful right with that.
Avery,
You stated:
... if you believe that billions of years of random chance and death yielded out the universe, you’ll date fossils at millions of years old. But if you start with God’s Word, you know that most fossils were laid down when God judged the world in the worldwide flood just over 4,500 years ago.
From where did you get the figure of fossils coming from the worldwide flood about 4,500 years ago? Is that from your Young Earth Creationism (YEC)?
Oz
Great topic.
Straying from biblical authority is straying from the truth.
I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 2 Timothy 4:1
This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn from the truth. To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.
Titus 1:13-15
Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins. James 5:19-20
JLB
Truthfrees
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God's words are awesome
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Truthfrees
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also liked this part
Why are so many Christians intimidated by secular science?
They don’t understand that there’s a battle over two interpretations, not a battle over evidence.
There are two kinds of science: observational and historical science. Observational science is directly testable, repeatable, and observable (such as research in medical and technological fields). Historical science deals with the past, which is not directly testable, observable, or repeatable (such as explaining how the universe came into existence).
What you believe about the past determines how you interpret the evidence. For example, if you believe that billions of years of random chance and death yielded out the universe, you’ll date fossils at millions of years old. But if you start with God’s Word, you know that most fossils were laid down when God judged the world in the worldwide flood just over 4,500 years ago.
Truthfrees
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also liked this part - great article throughout - solid stance on scripture
How can someone talk to an unbeliever about the authority of Scripture?
Unbelievers have a different foundation from believers. Islam, Mormonism, Buddhist philosophies, and atheism—all are rooted in human reasoning. We need to explain that unbelievers think differently from us because they have a different foundation. But we also need to tell them that God’s Word is the only sure foundation and explain why it can be trusted. That’s where apologetics comes in—you need to know why God’s Word can be trusted.
Truthfrees,
In my apologetics with Aussie unbelievers I try to show them how to determine the accuracy of any human document from the past. Then I apply the same principles to the Bible to demonstrate it is a reliable series of documents.
You might be interested in my approach in this article: Evidence for the afterlife
While the Bible is a spiritual document, it also is an historical document as it touches down on people from history:
- Pharaoh,
- King Saul,
- Nebuchadnezzar,
- King Artaxerxes,
- Belshazzar,
- Pilate.
Truthfrees
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amen
