You CANNOT Tell Them Much!
(After they dump … they run!)
Hope fully this will engage the intellectual proteins that reside in some of my readers here at WonPreacher. WonPreacher received a comment this morning to the ‘LAMININ' - Louie Giglio post on April 21st from Joshua, with no way to occupy him in dialogue. I will leave name-calling to him. (See Below)
Joshua’s salutation is: “Are Christians dumbing down?” Now of course I am not Joshua, yet if I was going to introduce my perspective to someone else for evaluation I believe that I would start with something less confrontational. Let me give you an example. I know not only that there is A GOD I also know that the only way to Him is thru His Son Jesus God’s Anointed.
Like Joshua I can start with: Get Down On Your Knees You Sinner And Repent And Ask God For Forgiveness And Accept What The Lord Jesus Has Done For You That You Will Not Spend Eternity In The Burning Lake Of Hell-Fire & Brimstone! YET I would chose a way to engage the persons intellect and pray that The Holy Spirit would quicken that measure of faith that Paul tells us that has been given to everyone! (Rom 12:3) And not run them off at the Get-Go!
Joshua continues with: “Are you so controlled by this way of thinking that you can't think critically?” Some more name calling for sure! Joshua you need to come off the plantation that keeps you a slave and in the bondage that does not allow you to have the freedom to practice what you are preaching.
Now this gets really interesting: “God gave you a mind that can be used to weed out information that is FRIVOLOUS and to concentrate on the information that is SIGNIFICANT.” No doubt that Joshua has not even looked at the information of what Laminin is and how significant it is to life. It did not ooze forth from some primordial slime. Laminin is vital to making sure overall body structures hold together. This is the “FRIVOLOUS information ” that Joshua has weeded out, so his premise remains un-scathed from the truth. In order for this not to turn into a tome, let me just say that he chose “to weed out” the “SIGNIFICANT information” so that he could bolster his attack on the facts. (Using Joshua’s Emphasis.)
Hang On! Here we go!: “While it may be neat that this protein molecule, when diagrammed, is in the shape of a cross, that's really all it is: neat. What it is not is some kind of innate proof of the existence of a god, The God of the Bible or Jesus.” Since Joshua is not around, I know that I am preaching to the Choir, Nevertheless, The Spirit bears witness. Here is where I agree with Joshua that it is "neat that this protein molecule, when diagrammed, is in the shape of a cross,” though it will maintain the general shape because of what it is.
(1Co 1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. )
Now here comes his clincher!: “If a researcher found a molecule in the shape of a Sleigh, would it be proof of the existence of Santa Claus? Would they go head-over-heels about it? No. It would go something like this: "Wow, that kind of looks like a sleigh." and then they would move onto something of importance. Please remember that critical thinking is what strengthens ideas.” What would warrant the effort of “that critical thinking” would be that that “molecule in the shape of a Sleigh” was the protein, which guaranteed every girl and boy a gift on December 25th. That the “molecule in the shape of a Sleigh, would” be frosting on the cake!
Now to the references that is the ‘coup de grace’ putting the “dumbed down Christians” out of their misery!: “An X-Ray Santa Claus in Orion: The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has discovered a huge cloud of high-temperature gas resting in a spectacular nearby star-forming region, shaped somewhat like the silhouette of Santa Claus. http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMOCI73R8F_index_0.html” JEP! Here is a cloud of gas, like a water vapor cloud in our skies, which will be a hand today and a banana tomorrow. And this will put the whole discussion finally to bed!: “Also.... this image should speak for itself:
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/askville/1234711_4925850_mywrite/lncopy.jpg” YES! 22 Images and "Also.... this image should speak for itself” One looks like a scorpion, A ‘Slam Dunk’ in the happening, a horse rearing, a tricycle, … I did not see anything that looked like a Santa or a Sleigh,
B U T ! I did see one that could pass for a cross! ;-)
Joshua, it is to bad that you ran off. I was wondering what I was going to write about today and I would like to thank you! 1 aka DP
