-— Christianity and science are complimentary—not enemies. ——
Yes. Jesus is Truth Itself. So all truth is God’s truth. We should never fear the truth, in whatever form we find it.
We have nothing to fear from the truth. This distinguishes us from the occultists, materialists and Marxists, who fear truths that contradict their ideologies.
You wrote: “...This distinguishes us from the occultists, materialists and Marxists, who fear truths that contradict their ideologies”
Exactly:
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“...To stop at the literal level of the text as a Rev. Jerry Falwell or Sam Harris would, is to leave most of the meaning out, and [to] deify the Bible itself for their purposes (either pro or con) and to miss out completely on the doing of its meaning being actively threaded through the reader’s soul.”
“....the modern deviation of “fundamentalism” is no less a form of debased materialism than materialism proper. In fact, it represents the reaction of a weak soul to the abnormal conditions of modernity — an attempt to combat materialism by fully conceding its assumptions. ...”
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2738591/posts?page=78#78