The Danger of "Thinking" Christians

Proverbs 25:2(MSG) - God delights in concealing things; scientists delight in discovering things.

God knows all things and by His design, we don't. However, the goal of scientists is to discover truth. Well, at least it should be. Sometimes, it's the real truth but many times it's the desired truth. When we're presented with evidence, we don't always believe what we see but we do see what we believe. Therefore, what really matters in science is not just the presentation of evidence but the interpretation of the presented evidence. Anyway, people of faith can learn a thing or two from scientists.

Facing religious arguments against his scientific pursuits, 15th century Italian physicist Galileo Galilei said “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

Job 35:9-11(MSG) - "When times get bad, people cry out for help. They cry for relief from being kicked around, But never give God a thought when things go well, when God puts spontaneous songs in their hearts, When God sets out the entire creation as a science classroom, using birds and beasts to teach wisdom.

Join me as we enter God's science classroom.

Ex nihilo nihil fit–Latin, “Out of nothing, comes nothing” a phrase originated by the Scholastics in claiming that the universe needs God as its cause because something cannot be created out of nothing.

Source: A Dictionary of Common Philosophical Terms, Gregory Pence, published by Mc Graw-Hill

Something from nothing. Life from non-life. Non-directed order from total chaos. Universal moral law but no law-giver. Simple, logical ideas that strengthen the secular position don't seem so logical after all, don't they? If we really want to push the issue there is a lot of low hanging fruit out there for us to pick on.

That's why "thinking" Christians are so dangerous. The same way critics use logic to pick apart the Christian position, "thinking" Christians can return the favor. Why not?