Posted on 04/08/2009 7:27:21 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Ping!
For every one person you bring to Christ you drive away at least 5.
That's going to put the ID/creation scientist in the position of having to discern God's motives.
So you are happy that you drive people away from Christ. That isn’t something I would expect a Christian to say - how do you justify it?
We have the advantage of having God’s Word to inform us of the motives He has chosen to reveal. Not only that, he tells us what and when he created, which is why creation origins science is so vastly superior to Evos blindly grasping for random straws in the dark.
Jesus Christ says that His message is offensive to the lost. Wide is the gate that leads to destruction, and narrow is the path that leads to eternal life.
and you come up with this ratio based on science or professional gut feel based on your wrong assumptions.
That's going to submit the Bible as theory. Are you sure you want to do that?
By talking to people - that is how I came up with it.
Judging from your posts and your treatment of others - perhaps you should reread the message of Jesus Christ?
God does not formulate theories. He knows the beginning from the end. He is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. Men are forced to formulate theories.
I have. That’s how I know the message of Jesus Christ is offensive to the lost.
I don’t think so - I know some who have found God and they are much nicer and respectful to those with whom they disagree. The operate on the theory that by being a good example they may gain converts.
It appears to work.
How many have you won to Christ, DevNet?
Well, if the scientist is a tropical arthropod entomologist, I want him tossing bugs out of trees. I don't think he'd be very useful in cancer research or greengineering.
Confronting people with their disbelief and insisting they repent was exactly what the rest of the Bible says. Insisting that you are a Christian but calling God’s Word to His people a lie isn’t what Jesus was looking for. When Jesus preached in the synagogue, he preached Genesis, The Flood, Sodom’s destruction, ect. I can’t find in the Scripture where He said all that stuff in the Bible was a myth and we actually came from apes or pond scum or whatever. Your theory would have Jesus preaching lies in church. If Jesus lied, He wasn’t perfect and couldn’t be my substitute for sin on the cross. All Christianity crumbles like a house of cards. You can choose man or choose God, you cannot serve to masters.
It does not follow that anything offensive is the message of Jesus Christ.
That's not bad! Every 5th person converted to Christ. Thanks for the encouragement :o)
So, not only do you not understand evolution, you don't understand math either.
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