Dave Probert wrote:
>>While I think that this is undoubtedly true, I would like to point out
that anyone who thinks that intellectual assent is important to receiving
Christ is likely to have a bit of disappointment.<<
I absolutely agree. You can not come to Christ through intellectual assent
entirely. But as a famous friend of mine has often said, "The heart can not
rejoice in what the mind believes is false". In order to come to Christ
however we must believe that he TRULY is the Son of God and that the record
we have, the Bible, somehow correctly characterizes him and correctly
characterizes how God deals with the universe.
Dave wrote:
>>The C/E issue is not important for evangelism (unless it serves to
undermine ones scientific idols). But it is also not important for faith.<<
If you talk to a number of people who now reside on Talk.Origins, you might
see this differently. A whole lot of them left the faith because they could
not find any way to harmonize things. Of course one can say that they were
never believers in the first place, but I am not quite so comfortable with
that approach.
glenn