tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931118226392796332.post244141836826003037..comments2024-02-23T10:10:20.285-08:00Comments on Φιλολoγικά/Philologica: John Locke: Father of the Fundies?Hans Georg Lundahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931118226392796332.post-4560458792354800372013-05-04T01:46:04.758-07:002013-05-04T01:46:04.758-07:00Of late, some Christians have added a new slant to...<i>Of late, some Christians have added a new slant to this by claiming it is Bible believing creationists that are actually the cause of people rejecting the Christian faith. The twist is this. They say that when Christians affirm a plain reading of the Bible and teach it to young people they are setting them up for apostasy. Why? They declare that once youngsters get older and learn ‘real science’ (which is often stated as millions of years and evolution) then they reject all of Christianity, not just the Genesis account. ... In his online Christianity Today article “Young Earth Creationism Makes Life Difficult for Everyone” author Rob Moll bashes biblical creationists and then quotes Stephen Moshier (department chair of Wheaton Christian College) saying; “Many of us at Christian colleges really grieve at what a problem this young-earth creationism makes for the Christian witness.” ... Biblical creationists agree that young people are abandoning the faith because of a perceived discrepancy between the plain reading of the scripture and what they are being taught is the ‘fact’ of evolution. However, we disagree that attempting to perform highly specious theological gymnastics with the plain reading of the biblical text is the best approach. Teaching Christians to reinterpret biblical revelation based on (ultimately atheistic) evolutionary presuppositions is illogical and leads to a lack of biblical authority.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://creation.com/sleeping-with-the-enemy" rel="nofollow">http://creation.com/sleeping-with-the-enemy</a><br /><br />The complaint of Rob Moll, coming from Christian Evolutionists, is pretty identical to the complaint by Loisy-like or Dean Inge-like Non-Miraculous Christians against people like C. S. Lewis about a generation or two earlier. They also complained that Christians believing the Virgin Birth actually occurred made life more difficult for the rest of Christians. He said so himself in his book Miracles (1947) and answered basically that he did not feel a Christianity with so little miracles and so much mental gymnastics was worth preserving.Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.com