Just came across this guy's story. Pretty cool.
AN Wilson's Faith Journey
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Angel from Montgomery
This song seems to sink down to the bones It's like the song was always there- it just took a guy named John Prine to unearth it for the rest of us.
The thorniness of talking about creation
Evolution.
With one word, you can inspire more feelings than nearly any word other than God. For some noteable atheist biologists it might inspire worship. For Christians, it may spawn feelings anywhere from anger, to passive indifference to fear.
For a beginner to the study of origins, it's felt a lot like walking into a bar in the middle of a massive fight. In some sense, there's two teams whacking each other over the heads with chairs, but as you look closer, there's some people whose team is indistinguishable. When you look even closer there's animosity within the teams themselves. It's clear that the issues run deep. Even this past week, two very influential Christian leaders got very heated about this. There are many personal and philosophical issues at stake.
There are SO many issues related with this topic. Here are a few that I've run into:
1. Faith and Reason
2. Materialism and Supernaturalism
3. Living with mystery - I've found this is really hard for me- it's SUPER SUPER hard for me to take things on faith. Prov. 3:5 does not come easy for Brett Ripley
3. Biblical interpretation - most notably, items specific to genre and Hebrew.
4. The nature of science - Is ID science?
5. The age of the earth - billions or thousands
6. The reality that informed Christians hold sometimes radically different views on nearly every issue involved.
It's enough to fill a mind and then some. I'm trying to process all the new info well and remain cool and level-headed. Blogging it all out helps :)
With one word, you can inspire more feelings than nearly any word other than God. For some noteable atheist biologists it might inspire worship. For Christians, it may spawn feelings anywhere from anger, to passive indifference to fear.
For a beginner to the study of origins, it's felt a lot like walking into a bar in the middle of a massive fight. In some sense, there's two teams whacking each other over the heads with chairs, but as you look closer, there's some people whose team is indistinguishable. When you look even closer there's animosity within the teams themselves. It's clear that the issues run deep. Even this past week, two very influential Christian leaders got very heated about this. There are many personal and philosophical issues at stake.
There are SO many issues related with this topic. Here are a few that I've run into:
1. Faith and Reason
2. Materialism and Supernaturalism
3. Living with mystery - I've found this is really hard for me- it's SUPER SUPER hard for me to take things on faith. Prov. 3:5 does not come easy for Brett Ripley
3. Biblical interpretation - most notably, items specific to genre and Hebrew.
4. The nature of science - Is ID science?
5. The age of the earth - billions or thousands
6. The reality that informed Christians hold sometimes radically different views on nearly every issue involved.
It's enough to fill a mind and then some. I'm trying to process all the new info well and remain cool and level-headed. Blogging it all out helps :)
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