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by Orion on Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:27 pm
Those are good questions. What I'm saying is that people choose not to believe, not out of rebellion or "choosing to believe a lie", but because they see results from tests that show the same thing over and over again. That the universe is extremely old, and our planet is quite old too. Are these things that which "God sends to them as delusions for them to believe"? I mean, what exactly are they supposed to believe when Christianity has given a time line from Genesis 1 to now as ~ 6,000 - 10,000 years, yet they test and test and test and etc. and continually get the same ball park of billions of years?
I'm not saying I agree with Evolution. I think it is something "middle of the road", too complicated for primative Hebrews to fully understand, so it comes out in a child like story, and perhaps even too complicated for modern man, hence believing it to start with a "Big Bang".
Regardless of all that, many people see these facts and gain their perspective from them, and those perspectives don't line up with some of what the Bible says. Are these facts placed there by God as a "hardening agent"? How would that be fair? Because these people would not disbelieve if they tested and tested and tested and etc. only to discover an early, young earth and universe!!
Those are good questions, too. I can’t answer for others in their search for truth. I can only say from my own experience, when I would rather not believe something, I am most likely to see a way around the truth of the matter. For instance, in theology, I am most repelled by Calvinist doctrines, so from time to time, I ask myself, if this hideous doctrine were true, would I eat the necessary crow involved with back tracking over my previous rants against it and would I accept it? If my answer is truthfully ‘no’, I have no business saying I am searching for truth, do I? I am merely setting up my own ideas and packing ‘evidence’ around them to make them stand.
Ultimately, it is love for one another and the way we live our lives in obedience to the message that Jesus brought that will be the determining factor of our destiny so what you believe in this area only has to bring you to the place where that is the important thing in your life. Sorry that was pretty run on and on but hopefully you will get the gist of it. Zzzzzzzzzzzzonked here.