Christ in Post-Christian Culture
You said that all of this was yours;through Your spoken word, the water came;at your request, land arose. You called up trees and bees and beasts of all size. All this, where I sit and ponder, is proof that Your words create life and wonder. Everywhere, I see Your hand. Manmight be Your grandest work, …
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PROVIDENCE IS AMONG THE most frequently misunderstood words in Christian theology. According to Merriam-Webster, providence can be defined as "...divine guidance or care" or "God conceived as the power sustaining and guiding human destiny." The word is also used to identify "God," "deity," or "divine superintendence." Admittedly, providence as a word does not appear in …
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Written by Steven Barto, B.S. Psy., M.A. Theology Religion and science are two of the most significant and contentious cultural and intellectual forces known to man. Leading Christian thinkers at the time of the Renaissance used the metaphor "God's 2 Books" as a way to illustrate allowing both science and religion to tell us about …
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You said that all of this was yours;through Your spoken word, the water came;at your request, land arose. You called up trees.All this, where I sit and ponder,is proof: Your words create life and wonder.As I look about, everywhere, I see Your hand. Man might be Your grandest work, but there isso much more in …
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WHAT IS SCIENCE? How do we determine if it leads to truth? Whose truth does it represent? Stripped down, science essentially means "the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment." Is true science an elitist or Gnostic pursuit? In …
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Most science textbooks on cosmology credit Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson with the discovery that the universe began with a hot big bang creation event. While Penzias and Wilson were the first (1965) to detect the radiation left over from the creation event, they were not the first scientists to recognize that the universe is …
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Evolution must now be understood and explained at the molecular level. Evolution is a rather malleable term. It can be used by me, for example, to mean something as simple as change over time. You might use it to mean the descent of all life forms from a common ancestor. In its full-on, biological sense, …
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The current sentiment regarding science versus God is, "Surely, you can't be a scientist and believe in God these days!" It's a viewpoint expressed by many people over the years. Others don't even bother asking the question, stopped by their own doubts. After all, they say, science has given us such marvelous explanations for the …
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IT WAS THE SIXTH DAY. God had just finished creating all the living creatures that move along the ground. As He had at each stage of creation, God paused and evaluated His work. Genesis 1:25b says, "And God saw that it was good." Only one more task remained. "Then the LORD God formed a man …
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IMPLICATIONS OF A WORLDVIEW Every worldview frames how one understands the world and how one acts in that world. Understanding the phenomenon of worldviews has implications for our thinking in at least three fundamental ways: (1) understanding what happens when variant worldviews meet, (2) recognizing the degree to which worldviews are inherited, and (3) acknowledging …
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