Jan de Koning wrote:
> Again, I do not think that we get any further until we know a whole list of
> facts about each other. Then we may be able to pick at it detail by
> detail. My experience in discussing this subject tells me, that the basic
> issues behind reading the Bible take years to discuss in lectures and
> studies. I said so earlier this week or last week, that involved is: your
> (and any time I say your, I mean your and mine) education, which schools
> (elementary and secondary) you attended, if they were public or Christian,
> what kind of Christian schools if Christian, which college and university
> you attended, which courses you took; did you study history, and if so
> what kind of history; did you study philosophy, and if so what type; what
> church you attend, and how the preaching is in the church, and I may have
> left out some points. The reason that I say that is that all these and
> other factors effect the way we think, and what is more, the way we read
> the Bible.
> Translations are involved and philosophies are involved. I am sorry, if
> you feel discouraged, but so do I time and again. As a matter of fact, if
> I don't get anywhere in discussions like this I give up, when I am
> convinced that the person I am talking to believes that Jesus Christ is His
> Saviour. Even if that is not so the discussion is continued on a totally
> different level.
>
> In order to be consistent: I am born in 1924 .....
SNIP
O.K. Jan,
quickly:
I was born in 1935 in Massachusetts. Went to a public grammar school
then to a Roman Catholic High School. Went to MIT in 1952 and lost
whatever faith I had in the first few months. For about 8 Months I
became a searcher with no opinion at all. Wound up as a theist with
strong leaning towards Christianity. Met an evangelical Christian in my
3rd year and wound up as a Committed Christian. Graduated MIT with a
BSEE and an MSEE. Married in 1959, raised 3 kids and spent 5 years in El
Paso Texas where I picked up a Ph.D. in physics (Fusion plasmas). I had
a chance to run the E.E. Lab at Los Alamos but stuck to Engineering with
a Contractor. Moved back to Massachusetts and been there ever since. I
currently run my own company, which may be found at
www.paradoxscientific.com
Insofar as theology, only my own personal studies, which were intense at
MIT and more casual after that. For 6 years I was an Elder at a United
Presbyterian church, I currently am a member of a non-denominational
church (Baptist oriented) but my activities are primarily as serving
various members of the community. I am basically a Deist or TE in the
physical world and a "mystic" in the spiritual domain.
Walt
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Walt Hicks <wallyshoes@mindspring.com>
In any consistent theory, there must
exist true but not provable statements.
(Godel's Theorem)
You can only find the truth with logic
If you have already found the truth
without it. (G.K. Chesterton)
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