RE: have we forgotten who the enemy is?

There are important questions that people ask themselves or to others. These are not questions of science or about science but about values, meaning, what the whole thing is all about, etc. Christians have to make clear what are the answers given by those who have placed their faith in the truth that is in Jesus the Christ. Let others answer such types of questions with the answers provided by their worldviews and see how one set of answered compares with another set of answers and search for the one that is more all encompassing and more satisfying. Scientific questions are not the most important questions that people ask. Of course, there is the gray area between science and (religious) faith. However, how long can a person live in the gray area without making some substantial commitment to a particular worldview?

Moorad

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu on behalf of George Murphy
Sent: Fri 2/18/2005 12:05 PM
To: Rich Blinne; Glenn Morton
Cc: jack syme; asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: have we forgotten who the enemy is?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Blinne" <rich.blinne@gmail.com>
To: "Glenn Morton" <glennmorton@entouch.net>
Cc: "jack syme" <drsyme@cablespeed.com>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: have we forgotten who the enemy is?

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> It's sad, Glenn, that people just don't get it. Our goal is defending
> the Bible.
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Part of the problem is that too many Christian apologists see their primary
goal as "defending the Bible." It ought to be defending the Christian
faith - including belief that the God revealed in Jesus Christ is the
creator. This is not to deny the crucial role that the Bible must play in
that work or that truth claims have to be made for scripture. But one can
"defend the Bible" without a clear understanding of what its purpose is, and
thus get into all kinds of muddles about how to read it.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Fri Feb 18 12:44:14 2005