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Archaeologist Buys a House
I don’t know if it’s an archaeologist-thing or just a me-thing, but I adore old houses. For the last 10 years, we had the honor of owning a 1908 Foursquare on a prominent street in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It was built before electricity, so it had 50 windows in the main house and the carriage house. It was constructed of heart pine and was impervious to termites. The triple-layer brick facade lite
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“I think it is hard for intellectually brilliant people to make leaps of faith regardless of their vocations. Highly analytical minds want to take everything apart, see all the pieces, and understand them. There is a certain pride that comes with total understanding, and a simultaneous fear of the unknown. That combination of pride and fear too often leads great scholars to belittle people of faith as weak, wrong, silly, and useless.
“But it works the other way too. Too many Christians take pride in their extrascriptural beliefs, fear science they interpret as contradicting the Bible, and belittle scholars as weak, wrong, silly, and useless. No one trying to learn about creation is any of those things. Christians should engage with scientific discovery, be awed by God’s work, and pray that everyone will see Him in the "atoms as massive as suns, and universes smaller than atoms.”
― Mary Magdalene Never Wore Blue Eye Shadow: How to Trust the Bible When Truth and Tradition Collide
“But it works the other way too. Too many Christians take pride in their extrascriptural beliefs, fear science they interpret as contradicting the Bible, and belittle scholars as weak, wrong, silly, and useless. No one trying to learn about creation is any of those things. Christians should engage with scientific discovery, be awed by God’s work, and pray that everyone will see Him in the "atoms as massive as suns, and universes smaller than atoms.”
― Mary Magdalene Never Wore Blue Eye Shadow: How to Trust the Bible When Truth and Tradition Collide
“The Bible is a portrait of God, not a tool to calculate the age of the earth or number the generations of humanity. If we expect the Bible to be a textbook, we will be disappointed. Searching the Scriptures for validation of humanity’s theories is the opposite of searching the Bible for God’s face.
We have to become okay with saying, ‘I don’t know why,’ when Scripture conflicts with science and history. God does not intend for us to know everything about Him and His creation while we are on earth. If He did, then we would have access to that Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (Genesis 2:17)! Complete knowledge is reserved for God, and those of us who claim to have it—even on a scriptural basis—are falling into the same trap as Eve and Adam did. We find ourselves simultaneously swamped by pride in our intellects and fear of what we still don’t understand.”
― Mary Magdalene Never Wore Blue Eye Shadow: How to Trust the Bible When Truth and Tradition Collide
We have to become okay with saying, ‘I don’t know why,’ when Scripture conflicts with science and history. God does not intend for us to know everything about Him and His creation while we are on earth. If He did, then we would have access to that Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (Genesis 2:17)! Complete knowledge is reserved for God, and those of us who claim to have it—even on a scriptural basis—are falling into the same trap as Eve and Adam did. We find ourselves simultaneously swamped by pride in our intellects and fear of what we still don’t understand.”
― Mary Magdalene Never Wore Blue Eye Shadow: How to Trust the Bible When Truth and Tradition Collide
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