tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post8721269177610779194..comments2023-12-22T08:29:29.230-08:00Comments on WHAT IS TRUTH: Bill Nye's Disqualifying Ignorance or Lies about the BibleKent Brandenburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-45986223046992593082014-02-14T17:01:19.435-08:002014-02-14T17:01:19.435-08:00Kent,
You hit the mark right in the center four s...Kent,<br /><br />You hit the mark right in the center four straight times with you comments above. Christianity is passive because most are influenced by the wicked every day, yet it does not trouble them! This clown Nye mocks God and the bible and a Christian does not have righteous indignation? I would have put that fool in his place and called him out on his biblical ignorance which was both appalling and laughable.<br /><br />I face those kinds all the time when preaching at the University of Michigan and call their stupidity of EVILotion on the carpet as I preach on the Creator and his creation. We need more preachers to stand boldly and confidently and yes, sometimes mockingly against those who imagine a vain thing like evolution.The Preacherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00555338497068482867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-3071957743568910712014-02-12T14:30:41.043-08:002014-02-12T14:30:41.043-08:00Thesauros,
Thanks for commenting. You probably d...Thesauros,<br /><br />Thanks for commenting. You probably don't know me -- maybe you do and you're a common reader here. It doesn't seem so. I pastor a church in the SF Bay Area, not the Bible belt, plenty of people like Bill Nye in other words. It's true that people get saved because of a supernatural work of God. For that reason, and if you read my review of the debate a week ago, I say that Ken Ham did a good job with the gospel in the presentation. He was also presuppositional, which was good. So there were good things there.<br /><br />Think about a few things here with this, because I know what I'm doing and how I'm writing.<br /><br />One, I'm not writing to persuade Ken Ham or people like him. I'm writing here to present in a very strong manner how bad Nye is. Believe it or not, there are a lot of Christians who don't know that. They can't think straight sometimes and they're influenced by the world and the media. Did you read how that 92% at Christianity today said that Nye won the debate. That is indicative of fear, IMO. I understand that it could have been an unscientific poll too, but this was still way too skewed.<br /><br />Two, Nye's position needs to be mocked. God sits in the heaven and laughs (Psalm 2). This is one of those occasions. His presentation was really that bad. It needs to be made light of.<br /><br />Three, have you thought that since we're not saving them, then complete calmness and deference are also not going to save them. Being outraged should be a natural reaction. We're to the point in Christianity where a baby is killed and it is so normal that we have an inhuman, unChristian reaction. We need to retrain our emotions to what should be default outrage. We can't grow accustomed to this stuff. People are.<br /><br />Four, we should answer a fool according to his folly. This is biblical. It doesn't mean that we do this non-stop every day, but it has to be part of the reaction. I read a review that said Ham should have been more of a junk yard dog. I agreed with him. This isn't something that you sit back and accept, and treat like you are on equal terms. There is no neutrality there. Ham's position is not just far superior -- it is the only true position. The other isn't reasonable and it should be shown for deluded insanity that it is.<br /><br />I'm open to more critique like this, but this is my position, and it's something I thought through before writing this. This is a week afterward. I didn't right an angry screed right after the debate, because I was ticked off. This was directed anger. God's anger is directed, not out of His passion, but out of His mind. We are to have the same type of approach.<br /><br />Thanks again.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-39021428001850692092014-02-12T13:56:42.184-08:002014-02-12T13:56:42.184-08:00Well, the thing is, unless God opens one's spi...Well, the thing is, unless God opens one's spiritual eyes (as seen in the allusion to the telephone game) it is impossible to understand the Bible. Or as the line goes, "Reading the Bible without the Holy Spirit is like reading a Sun Dial by the light of a quarter moon."<br /><br />Accepting this has gone a long way to lowering my frustration with atheists. <br /><br />My problem for me was that for six years I spoke to atheists in a manner that made me feel good. My information was accurate, compelling even (to those to whom God was already speaking) but was not processed by those to whom I was speaking. And then, and THEN when they didn't accept what I was saying, I blamed them. I told them they were dull of mind and slow of thought (they are), but I didn't need to tell them that.<br /><br />I know, people like Nye, in all their ignorance and arrogance are very annoying. My advice? Take a deep breath and emulate Ham's response. It's God's job to save and forgive. Not ours. Thesauroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13305052511095551483noreply@blogger.com