YEC teaching reaching souls?

[Vance]

Personally, I believe that God BOTH works in the natural world through the natural processes (God in all), and works using special, supernatural events which contravene the natural processes he put in place.

And, really, I do see the Creation as a miracle, no matter how much of it was accomplished through natural processes He put in place. The very act of bringing everything into existence was a supernatural act. Since we know that God was the prime (sole!) mover, and He had to have taken action before natural laws and processes were in place, there was necessarily a supernatural event involved.

 

[bluejeans]

I can only speak for myself, but I never approach witnessing with a dogmatic attitude about creation. I will express and defend my opinion if necessary, but I do encourage everyone to seek his or her own answers. I am not so arrogant to believe that I am right about everything. Ironically, the creation/evolution issue has only come up one time and I found that shaking an atheist's faith in evolution was the fastest thing I’ve ever seen to make them consider God. Other than that one time, I find the majority of the “stumbling blocks” have been homosexual issues, reliability of the scripture, and the nature of God’s love, just to name a few. Should we attempt to remove these “stumbling blocks” by offering a different interpretation or should we rely on the Bible and stand for what it says?

One thing that you are missing Vance is there are people that require something to provide objectivity. You and many others here may be able to deal with “interpreting” the Bible to fit what you believe, but there are many more people out there that will not accept the Bible as the Word of God in that fashion. Many of these people will say that YEC did them in, but in reality, they have lost confidence in the Bible as a whole. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard an atheist discredit the Bible by saying something like ‘you can interpret the Bible to say whatever you want it to say’. How do you reach these people? Agree with them? I suppose you can, but then what? Can a person with this attitude be expected to believe that Jesus died for their sins and rose from the dead?

It’s obvious that you are so concerned about this and I applaud your passion and dedication, and I don’t believe that your intensions are wrong. However, I do think that you are going about it the wrong way. If you think that blasting, demeaning, and demonizing your fellow Christians publicly is what the Holy Spirit is leading you to do, then I can’t argue with that. Only you and God can say if that’s true or not. I can ask you to reevaluate your methods and make sure they are inline with God’s intentions.

As always, God bless

I totally agree with you! You said it better than I
could ever say it. You are right! May God be with you
always,and bless you mightily,in Jesus's sweet and
holy name,amen.

 

[bluejeans]

Can someone here define science to us?

 

[Vance]

Can someone here define science to us?

Sure.

Science is the study of the natural aspects of God's Creation.

 

[rmwilliamsll]

Can someone here define science to us?

funny thing, i've had maybe 10 philosophy of science classes and the best definition of science i know is:
science is what scientists do.