I am a Believer. I am
saved. God sent His Son Jesus, Jesus
died for my sins and rose again, and the veil separating me from God was forever
torn. I am Heaven-bound. I say that simply to remind you of that fact
as I verbalize my spiritual questionings.
I have yet to read anything about the big debate between Ken
Ham and Bill Nye. I haven’t clicked on any FB links or read any news
articles. But the whole Christians-debating-others
thing is sort of disgusting to me. Here’s why:
1) In my humble opinion, Believers trying to convince
non-Believers of anything scriptural or spiritual except for the saving grace
of Christ is fruitless and a waste of time.
How in the Sam hill can anyone expect a non-Believer to grasp and
understand the supernatural things of our Scripture?!? Believers have the Holy
Spirit to help them discern and understand and trust Truth. Without the Holy Spirit, it’s like trying to
convince someone who has never seen or felt or tasted or understood the concept
of water that an ocean exists.
2) Nowadays I question whether God cares that people believe the
Bible’s many stories “literally”.
Whether biblical history occurred exactly
as it’s spoken in the Bible, or whether God’s Scripture-writers used story and
allegory DOES NOT MATTER. (Yes ma'am, I can say that now.) It is the
understanding and concept of God’s plan for mankind that matters. You want to get stuck arguing that creation
occurred exactly as Scripture says? I
would rather spend my time in realizing, through the story of creation, what a
big God I have and that He cares enough about me to want a personal relationship
with me and that He can create something out of nothing. I don’t care if the Earth is 6,000 years old
or if it’s millions of years old. What
you or I personally believe about that doesn’t mean diddly squat in the scheme
of God’s love.
3) Jesus spoke in story and allegory all the time. Who is to say that the Scripture-writers didn’t
use the same method to share God’s truths?
If it was a good enough teaching method for Christ, do you think it
could be good enough for the rest of Scripture?
In my lifetime I’ve seen and read about denominations in
uproar, church members being asked to leave, and church congregations splitting
over the debate of the “literacy” of Scripture.
I bet that makes God so proud. I
think He’d be much prouder if those denominations, church members and
congregations spent more time loving each other and loving Him.
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Deloy, Thank you for sharing your thoughts. You are putting into words the questions/thoughts that I and (if people were honest) most others have had in our own minds. As I have grown in my own walk, I am definitely realizing that God is, indeed, more interested in how we love others than how much we "know". We are to BE the body of Christ. And really...what does it matter how OLD the earth is...right. There was a time I would have argued that point....He is changing me. Tina
ReplyDeleteI believe there is a scripture that says "God IS LOVE" now that is one we should all take literally.
ReplyDeleteNicely stated. I have a minister friend who commented on the debate between "sprinkling" and "immersion" for baptism (I have been in the Episcopal Church for 20+ years now). He suggested that when we enter Paradise, God would ask: "THAT'S what you were worried about and decided to argue about?"
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