tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376955256463224749.post5830131499141982181..comments2023-09-07T12:03:43.350-07:00Comments on Theological Sushi: The Good, the Bad, and the Neutral? Why the Secular Academy Is a Handmaid of the DevilB. C. Hodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02828477115799852133noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376955256463224749.post-30588308155078566702013-04-09T15:36:39.962-07:002013-04-09T15:36:39.962-07:00If you look up to the book I wrote, entitled, &quo...If you look up to the book I wrote, entitled, "Revisiting the Days of Genesis," then you can read what I've said concerning the Primeval History. But what I concluded, I did so on the basis of reading the Scripture in context in order to glean from it what God is saying. I don't start with the idea that secular science is correct when it interprets an unrepeatable event. <br /><br />So my comments have to do with understanding that there is no neutral ground. The secular academy exists for one primary reason, and that is to undermine the authority of the Word of God, as its god has done that from the beginning. <br /><br />Whether that is in its use of evolution, source criticism, pan-Babylonianism, disputes of authorship, disputes of history, disputes of dates of books, etc. <br /><br />One can believe all of these things as a Christian, but to not be wary of why and how they are employed by the secular academy is to be at the mercy of a religion hostile to orthodox Christianity. It is, therefore, not education in facts that leads people away from the Word of God, but the secular indoctrination using neutral data (and confusing data with the interpretation thereof) that brings the Christian to ruin.B. C. Hodgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828477115799852133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376955256463224749.post-43859074529996110542013-04-09T15:17:47.639-07:002013-04-09T15:17:47.639-07:00"Once you believe that secular findings conce..."Once you believe that secular findings concerning questions that support or undermine God's Word are neutral, you're going to conclude that the Bible must be wrong, since these findings are purely unmotivated by a culture's religious devotion."<br /><br />You're forgetting that there are devoted Christians who reject a six day creation and literal readings of many of the Old Testament stories.<br /><br />Francis Collins, of the Human Genome Project, is widely considered to be a brilliant scientist, but he also believes that the human species is hundreds of thousands of years old. <br /><br />Of course, to him, this doesn't undermine Scripture because He believes the Bible is speaking metaphorically. <br /><br />Or do you think he's just a secularist masquerading as a Christian?Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01694207997231305470noreply@blogger.com