Sunday, June 15, 2008

Belief in God, for a scientist

Let me review the goals of the discussion for the next few weeks-

1: That we may be better evangelist and that more people come to know Christ from a modern/skeptical city and world
2: That our faith in God and the scripture will grow
3: That our knowledge of scientific processes will increase

I intend to strengthen our ability to present belief in God as not only viable, but avoidable only by not wanting or being blind to see Him. Here is our general outline:

Week I; What does a 'creationist' believe? - we will read Genesis 1-2 in class together and discuss its literal meaning and implications.
Week II; What of "evolution" is "fact" - what will our kids learn in school. We will talk about facts of evolution that are very difficult to argue against - by difficult I mean that they are obviously true and you will discredit yourselves by not believing them (a lot of this you already believe) - and how creationism isn't hindered.
Week III: How best to explain your faith in light of science. We will focus on the WHY question, which obviously evolution cannot address. We must lead people to see that their heart yearns for a WHY - even if the world is 5 billion years old or something, and we have the answer to that!
Week IV: - open- to specific questions that arise if needed.

It will help our discussion if you respond with specific fears, ideas, beliefs, etc to this blog and I can help you more.

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