Re: concordance & genesis (edited)

On Monday, December 15, 2003, at 07:49 PM, Glenn Morton wrote:

> GRM I have seen this process so many times. But you are correct that
> not
> all is lost. I recently ran into a guy who told me that after he
> became an
> atheist, he ran into my web site and he has returned to the faith, but
> he
> sure is cynical about things. Maybe I still am also. The trust is
> gone.
> When you see YECs making so many obvious errors and you know you can't
> trust
> them, it makes you wonder if you can trust anything in a Christian
> bookstore.
While I never made the transition from YEC to atheist (I went directly
from YEC to what I am now: a Christian who accepts an old earth and
accepts that evolution is a process put in place by God to accomplish
his purposes) I hear you. Maybe I'm a bit cynical too. And I have
little use for most Christian bookstores (the ones at Calvin College
and Wheaton College are fine) I have the good fortune to be a member of
a church that generally doesn't dwell on creationism (although our
Wednesday evening class on Colson's book, How now shall we live gave me
some discomfort), but still when I bring up some of my views some
people look at me as though I were crazy.
>
> One other thing I have observed with falling YECs. They find it very
> difficult to tell their wives that they have changed. I did, a guy I
> met in
> my last month in Aberdeen did, a guy who recently emailed me from
> Iceland
> did. And a few others have mentioned this phenomenon.
My wife was brought up in a small town Wesleyan Church where
creationist doctrine was never questioned or challenged. It took a lot
of courage on my part to tell her I had abandoned creationism, but to
her credit she accepted it (my telling her -- not necessarily
abandoning creationism herself)
Bill Hamilton Rochester, MI 248 652 4148
Received on Wed Dec 17 16:45:21 2003