...Christians get so excited about cockamamie pseudo-scientific explanations for Biblical miracles that it just makes us look really dumb. It’s not just that our science is bad, it’s that we’re leaning on science at all. Christianity in the last two centuries has never really escaped from its Napoleon Complex that started in the Enlightenment. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not anti-intellectual. But the same Judeo-Christian worldview that allowed a flourishing rationalism sent many Christian thinkers on a snipe hunt for scientific proof of the Bible’s claims.
At this stage you might accuse me of disrespect for the divine Scripture because I am insisting that you can’t prove the miracles and events of the Bible through scientific enquiry. But the truth is that those who read the Bible in a way it was not intended by its author do more violence to the spirit and intent of the Scriptures.
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Yep! Where is faith? Why do we need it if we can walk by sight? Where is good exegesis? That's obviously gone :(
I once heard someone say that so-and-so must be an Evangelical, because they claimed to believe the Bible but then came up with all kinds of rational explanations for the plagues in Egypt! It makes me wonder if Evangelicals really believe in the supernatural...
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