Many atheists think it is their void-given right to make disrespectful, insulting or condescending remarks about religion. One I have heard a number of times is a common atheist response to “Your atheism is a religion”: If religion were a hair colour, then I am bald.
Art is man’s interpretation of the world, but the world itself is the original art. Everything is physical, literal, historical, but everything is also symbol. This is not an interpretation imposed upon what we observe. The Creation was actually made as symbol. Without the Word of God, we are rendered unable to interpret it. [1]
The meaning of the sun, moon and stars in Genesis 1 is not simply a poetic idea. The purpose of the heavenly lights is actual and practical. Moreover, it will be measured out in human flesh over and again throughout history.
One of my school friends ended up studying oceanography. He specialised and specialised until, in his own words, he knew everything about nothing.
Theologians have the tendency to invent abstract theology, divorced from the text and contained merely in their own complicated terminology. Generally, seminaries tie their students up with this stuff instead of just teaching them the Bible, and when they do teach the Bible it’s dissected into mostly disconnected little parcels.
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