We are living in an age where every person feels they are the expert and will denounce any facts giving to them as “fake news” “not accurate science or cannot be trusted,” and “false spirituality.” I was in a debate over the Behemoth in the Bible with an Atheist who said that because it says it has a navel, where an umbilical cord, it is false, and yet I showed them latest findings according to BBC reports from Paleontology is that some dinosaurs (non Avian) had navels, and so now they cannot definitively say Bronotsaurus and its relatives did not have them like the passage in Job. He told me I could not trust modern scholarship, when last week he debated me and said modern scholarship says Velociraptors and its relatives have feathers. So when he wants facts to support his argument, modern scholarship and findings are valid, but not when I used my to support the Bible. What tis tells me is Selectivism is the method, you cherry pick facts and ignore other ones that could unravel your argument.
What this Atheist I know fears is if the Bible is right about the Behemoth, the Brontosaur, then what if the rest of the Bible is true? He wants total control of his life, Atheists are selfish and want utter autonomy over their lives, that is why deep down they do not want to recognize God, because then you have to admit a High Power is in control of your life, and they do not want to acknowledge that, even through its true whither they believe or not.
It is getting where you cannot discuss anything anymore. You discuss history and science, and people pull up their cherry picked scholar and debate and say you are wrong, if you defend something in a fandom, fans come after you with again there own selective and skewed data. It is about ego and winning the argument, not seeking the truth, and becoming enlightened. You can cite major experts and scholars, and findings on something to someone, and they will have their HTTP site and quotes from a book that espouses their views, and fight all day with you. We are in effect in tribal think when it comes to information. We have unprecedented access to information with the internet, and yet people do group think, gate keeping, and behave like cults, even as individuals that you cannot reach with reason, The Holy Spirit, or anything!
I was with a very quick research able to debunk this atheist’s claims about no navels in dinosaurs, and yet they were determined to espouse their Darwinism, and world view that holds the Age of Reason antichrists as apostles. At the end of the day I have come to realize that argument is now becoming pointless, unless the person genuinely wants to learn something in the debate; and you are better off praying that God opens their eyes, then wasting your time trying to convince people. Dogmas are entrenched with people, and while we Christians have many denominations, the other sides now are breaking not into denominations but individuals each saying “they are like God,” as Lucifer said (Isaiah 14:14) and shout down anyone who has a message that does not fit their individual view. People are asking why so few people were attending churches in the West, the reason is not necessarily lack of faith in Jesus, it is that people hold to “their truth,” you cannot convince them with experts, The Scriptures, or even a message from the Holy Trinity received in Prophecy, because they are committed to their perspective, and cannot be a community in any form, because their lens is so microscopic and colored, that they will not get along with anyone else.
In this age people only trusting their own view, the Faith cannot easily thrive because we trust the Scriptures because of the experts who knew The Lord God in Old and New Testament Periods. We hold fast to the Apostle’s Teaching, “All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper), and to prayer., (Acts 2:42), and yet the way people are getting in this selectivism they would not honor them as experts, nor would they honor the Council of Nicea that gave us the Nicene Creed which is one of the great summaries of true Christian faith! We as Christians need to be wary of this, that we do not get torn apart by this Radical cultic individualistic thought; that will not heed reason, facts, data, and the Scriptures. If we cross over into this tribal think that has no tribe, or is a tribe of one with each person thinking only they know the truth, it’s game over. Amen.
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