Bible pick’n'choose?? No thanks…
March 4, 2008
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Today one of my tutors was saying how one thing he doesn’t like about ‘theologians’ (I took this as being synonymous with ‘Christians’… but I could just be oversensitive…) is that “… they ‘pick and choose’ the science they want to agree with.” And… well, I am not here to rant and rave in response to that… but I did, internally, as he said it 
don’t know if that’s a good thing… and if it isn’t, well, I am willing to be changed…
… I am getting off topic…
So anyway… his comment made me think. We (Christians) have reason to be choosy with science we agree with… but what we also tend to do which we have no excuse for is being choosy with which Biblical concepts we believe… not just ‘oh yeah I believe that…’ but having hearts that truly believe it, so that it impacts what we do. Not ‘believing’ as in hearing the word, but ‘believing’ as in we hear it and do what it says (Matthew 7:24)… no matter the cost. I know I am prone to being ‘choosy’ with God. Like, “I will obey this much because it doesn’t hurt ‘too much’… ummmm, but that’s a bit ‘too costly’…”
Argh!! How can I say this to the One who gave His only Son for me when I was His enemy (Romans 5:10)?? I want to take His word for what it is… and be transformed (Psalm 19:7). Not trying to change His word to fit me… but to let His word change me… that I would hear it and live it… all of it. Not just the bits that don’t seem ‘too hurty’.
… buuut I will continue to be picky when it comes to science… sorry Mr Darwin…
How is being choosy about what facts you accept any different than being willfully ignorant?
Sorry, please clarify… when you say ‘facts’ are you referring to scientific theory or Biblical truth?
Oooh my language there ^^ was dripping with my point of view… ugh, yes, I just analysed my own writing… you can take the girl outta English class but you can’t take the English class outta the girl…
A fact is defined as something that is the case, something that actually exists, or something that can be verified according to an established standard of evaluation.
I believe that God does exist, His word is truth (aka. ‘the case’)… and as to verification according to an established standard of evaluation… I have faith… which is also increased by encounter. Now, I am aware that faith and encounter can’t be fully verified by anyone else… but I have faith… and for me, that transcends a need for ‘verification’ when it comes to the things of God (apart from Biblical verification, of course… that is a necessity!!).
The Bible is my standard of evaluation when it comes to all things. And I believe that it is ‘established’… and will continue to be for all eternity… and I am aware that many disagree with that (I am not saying you disagree, by the way
I don’t know what your beliefs are… I’m just talking about mine 
)
But anyway, when it comes to science (and anything else for that matter)… if it contradicts Biblical principles, I don’t accept it. I believe that the Bible is a higher authority than scientific theory or results of experiments.
Yes, and my original point was that that constitutes willful ignorance.
Call it what you will, but to me it is knowing what I believe to be THE truth… and believing it. Even if it means not believing things regarded by others as truth.
Fair enough.
Take care,
-Dan
I have faith in a spirit made of dark energy that circles Jupiter. By the way no one can see it and it is undetectable. Prove me wrong but my faith tells me it is THE truth. All I can say I believe it is there and it tells me how to live my life through images in my head.