Re: Fable telling

Moorad Alexanian (alexanian@uncwil.edu)
Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:15:52 -0400

Apologetics can be used to lead people to the Lord by undermining their
beliefs and their objections to the Truth.

Moorad

-----Original Message-----
From: mortongr@flash.net <mortongr@flash.net>
To: George Murphy <gmurphy@raex.com>
Cc: Bill Hamilton <hamilton@predator.cs.gmr.com>; asa@udomo3.calvin.edu
<asa@udomo3.calvin.edu>
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: Fable telling

>At 07:51 AM 10/27/1999 -0400, George Murphy wrote:
>
>> Education as a discipleship tool is certainly important but this has
>>not, through Christian history, been what "aplogetics" has meant.
>
>I understand that. But in my opinion apologetics doesn't really draw people
>to the Lord. His love and our love for them, does. But, the lack of
>rational explanations for religious/observational conflicts can drive
>people away. Last night Paul seemed to denigrate rationalism and said that
>that was what atheists have a devotion to. But in fact they have a
>devotion to materialism. But hopefully christians believe that the world
>is rational.
>glenn
>
>Foundation, Fall and Flood
>Adam, Apes and Anthropology
>http://www.flash.net/~mortongr/dmd.htm
>
>Lots of information on creation/evolution