Wednesday, October 25, 2006

A Must-Read (updated)

Do not blame me - I read so many texts that I sometimes forget the source. I found this book discussed on a blog :-) and consider it very important to read, hence the suggestion.
I skimmed it and may recommend it warmly. It is a sound view of science from the biblical perspective.
I will never cease saying that getting knowledge of science is important for a Christian in this time and age. We have to know how to defend our faith against the ever popular and ever stronger flood of evolutionism and its children. It is them, and not us, whom the Bible calls "made foolish":
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
(1Co 1:19-21)

The real understanding is through the Word of God:
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
(1Co 2:12-16)
Look what God values and holds dear, and what is nothing to Him, and keep up hope and trust in Him:
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. (1Co 3:18-20)
And remember this always:
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth forever.
(Psa 111:10)

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