Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Theological Tuesday

~Is it hateful to not evangelize?
~Does God understand our guilt and regrets?
~What’s scary about the Gospel?
~How does loving God change us?

Links:
Atheist Penn gets a Bible (Youtube)
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Lee said...

If I were witnessed to on a daily basis by strangers, I might find it irritating after a while. But I am witnessed to so rarely that I in fact find it refreshing when it happens. I look at it as a chance to find out why people believe the way they do, and also as a chance to tell them why I disagree with them.

Earlier this year a female relative of mine was challenged by another woman in the church she attends to step up to the plate and witness to strangers in public places such as restaurants. My relative told me that she admires the other woman for doing that, but as for her own potential witnessing, “The best I could do would just be to tell them to read the Bible.” I take that to mean that she does not plan to begin to actively witnessing to strangers.

By the way, there is a certain hazard in Believers witnessing to science geeks. An example of what I mean is the approval radio Pastor Chuck Smith seems to give to the Solar System dynamics of Immanuel Velikovsky when Smith is preaching about End Times. A science geek is going to know that mainstream astronomers, including the late Carl Sagan, have pretty rigorously ruled out some of the wild claims about Venus as a vagabond planet wandering willy-nilly through the solar system.

Another example is something I once heard preached from the pulpit. The minister said, “Did you know that light and sound are really the same thing, just at different frequencies?” This was decades ago, and I don’t remember what point he was trying to illustrate when he said this, but his statement stretches the truth to the breaking point.

May 27, 2009 at 6:25 PM

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