Jesus led me in the other direction. The more I learned the more sense it made. Contradictions became complementary details. It appealed to my knowledge of history, my sense of logic and my ability to reason. The more I knew, the better it held together.
I read books like Josh McDowell’s Evidence that Demands a Verdict and saw solid evidence that made the claims of orthodox Christianity consistent with what I knew about the world. I read Fingerprint of God by Hugh Ross who is trained as a physicist and astronomer.
I have greatly enjoyed Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell. He presents the two sides of the philosophical debate from a totally secular perspective. He gives his sources. His two camps of philosophy are the Constrained and the Unconstrained. These match up with the Bibles two camps of the world that denies sin and the Bible which deals with sin.
Of course I have read and studied the Bible. I went to seminary but most of what I have learned has come from my own study and thought. I believe that a person of good will who is able to think and has an open mind will come down on the side of the Bible. Obviously others would disagree with me but the more I see, the more I believe.
The journey continues. My eclectic knowledge grows. My experiences multiply. As a result of this journey I have grown on the topics of evolution and Jesus, but in opposite directions. The more science discovers the weaker the case for evolution becomes. The case for Jesus gets better with age.
Forward without fear.
homo unius libri
Amen.
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