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By: Rich Bordner

Rich Bordner — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:24:05 +0000

Steven,

Your second comment makes no sense. I can’t figure out how it is a response to the words of mine you quoted.

As to your third comment: mere assertion…very difficult to substantiate.

At any rate, thanks for stopping by. Disagreeing voices appreciated.

By: Steven Carr

Steven Carr — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:17:04 +0000

CARRIANEE
Depending on the study, 60-80% of Christian kids walk away from the faith in college. True, its due to many factors, one of them being lack of prayer, but the biggest reason, according to these studies, is that “it doesn’t make sense” to the kids anymore.”

It’s because they were just fed the information, they didn’t receive understanding

CARR
This is because there is no Holy Spirit supplying understanding.

By: Steven Carr

Steven Carr — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:15:33 +0000

‘Paul, for example, never resorted to the simplistic, you-just-gotta-believe-and-have-faith-ism that is so popular today.’

As Paul says in 1 Corinthians 1 ‘Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles…’

Miraculous signs were the sort of things that Jews demanded, and like worldly wisdom, miraculous signs were not what Christianity supplied.

Raising Lazarus from the dead. 3 hours of darkness, people rising from their graves and appearing to many in the city….

These were the sorts of miraculous signs that Jews demanded. They were as bad as Greeks in demanding things that Christianity was not in the business of supplying.

Those tongues at Pentecost were another miraculous sign of the kind that Jews might have demanded.

Paul considers a hypothetical case of what might happen if a large number of Christians started speaking in tongues and unbelievers were present ‘So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and some who do not understand or some unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your mind?’

It is an interesting hypothetical question.

How strange that Paul couldn’t think of an example which might illustrate his point….