Good Monday morning! Football season began last night with the Hall of Fame game out in Ohio. School season begins very soon too. The start of school brings back the "faith vs. reason" argument as some like to call it. That complaint the world has that someone who chooses to believe in Jesus cannot be a scientist or have an "open" mind. A while back I may have mentioned a book by Dr. Francis Collins, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. The debate is starting up again as Dr. Collins is the nominee by President Obama to be director of the National Institutes of Health. The argument, as so often happens, is framed to sound bad for the believer. The argument is not that faith and reason cannot coexist in the same person, but that we who believe in Jesus are at odds with the world's wisdom. So what is this world's wisdom that we oppose?
The world would have us believe that humans are basically good with a few bad tendencies. The Bible on the other hand says: " for all have sinned and fallen short of God's glorious standard" (Rom 3:23), and, "the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it?" (Jer 17:9) The world also believes that many things can save us all, including: science, philosophy, being nice to each other, education, philanthropy, government, and other things of the world. Jesus told us that He alone is the Way. We are at odds with the world's reason; so can a believer function as a scientist? You bet. Who wants to know more about God's creation than one who believes that God did in fact create it? Faith in God gives us the desire to know more about the Creation we see all around us. Faith in Jesus allows us to be saved; not by our own action but by what Jesus has done for us. We choose to believe in God, not from any lack of intelligence or education, but because of His great love for us. No one runs around saying "the world saves!", but I do hear many wonderful voices saying "Jesus saves!"
Have a great day in Christ!
Bucky
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