Recently , I had one of my friends on Youtube (Who thought me about "Open Theism" and explained to me somethings about how evolution and God is compatible) telling me that as someone of my age , knowing this much about these things , that I should go into apologetics .
I don't want to .
Well depending on how you define it that is .
If you define Apologetics as finding hard proof for the existence of God and your beliefs , along with challenging others on debates and such... I can't do it .
All this searching and seeking that I've been doing and will be doing , will only be purposed to help me understand my faith more , and also to reconcile things here and there...
And also that if the topic is brought up and I am attacked , that I will be able to put up a logical and reasonable defense against my oppressor , with love and respect though .
I know that the Bible says that I shouldn't reason in my heart what to say and just let the Holy Spirit guide me , but hey , some foreknowledge would be advantageous wouldn't it ?
I just don't want to be that person who launches assaults on Atheists with scripture and all , telling them that hell is real and they should repent ... I want to be that person that would be able to try to think in their perspectives so that I can understand how they think and what they ultimately are trying to tell me , because I know that God doesn't just love the Christians , he loves everyone and therefore I think everyone should be treated with love and respect (This is something hard to do though...)
Especially , if that certain calling that I have received over the past few weeks is really of God , then that means I'm going to need more than this... And praise God if that calling is really from him because through the things that has been happening in my life , I can see that there's preparation taking place (Although most of the time , it hurts , it's painful , it's tough and challenging...)
Another fact to think about is this...
IF we Christians really lived up to our standards which Christ had thought us , and we actually TRIED to obey most of his commandments , then there would be really less atheists in this world...
I mean , if we all would just try our best to love our enemies , our neighbors and all , how can people not see something different in us ? The point is that this hardly happens .
Someone once put it this way :"Why are Christians so obsessed in proving that God exists when they ignore the teachings of the Bible itself ?"
This is one aspect that I HAVE to work on...
Francis Collins in his book the Language of God put it right where it had to be :"The beatitudes spoken by Christ was ignored by the Church when the crusade on the middle east took place..."
1 comment:
Interesting, because the knowledge that you seek, is the same thing that I would like to seek as well. Apologetics to me, is just another level, a higher level for those who are really into those sort of answer-question stuff.
Your points in this post give things to think about too, to me as well. Then again, I'd like to say that, for myself, it's hard to achieve all that because of the hardship and endurance-based tests that come through my life that I end up feeling that it's just too hard to continue.
I believe the people you relate to in this are those that eventually gave up, perhaps these people weren't led entirely well because they weren't approached, that kind of thing? So, it led to all this.
Your heart for others is well acknowledged, it's obvious. Whatever happens, don't let it change, because it's truly a gift to have it. It can make a difference.
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