Dr. Don Clark of Creation Moments talks with Jim regarding an article from the Institute for Creation Research that relates the amazingly rapid recovery and reformation of the Mount St. Helens region after those earth shaking eruptions in the early 1980’s …
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Hi Jim,
Yes, I agree that to remain silent certainly isn’t our calling as we carry out the Great Commission. My main point is that “faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God” (Rom 10:17). The credit for any of us coming to faith in Christ, or any of us abandoning our reasoning and relying on Biblical truths goes entirely to the Holy Spirit. We can’t even say that “Jesus Christ is Lord except by the Holy Spirit. (I Cor 12:3). It follows then that evangelism is only effective when one uses the Word, the means by which the Holy Spirit can work saving faith in our hearts.
Hi Friends at Broken Road Radio,
Listening to your archived program on Mount St. Helens, and the argument and evidence pointing toward a young earth, I have the following comments. Several Bible passages and chapters including most of I Corinthians 1 & 2 speak plainly about wisdom that comes from God as opposed to that which comes from the world. I Cor 1:20,25 and I Cor 2:14 are particularly enlightening. In the NIV Bible in I Cor 2:14, we read “The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to them, and he cannot (emphasis “cannot”) understand them, because they are spiritually discerned” (they come only via the Spirit which in turn comes only from the Word of God). So, what this says is this: man without the necessity of the Spirit of God giving him wisdom absolutely CANNOT understand the truth. Those of us, who by God’s grace working through the Holy Spirit, can try to present all kinds of scientific arguments and eloquent verbiage for hours on end, and the unbeliever will not, i.e. cannot, accept that as truth. So he or she will continue to desperately cling to their position even if all evidence points to the contrary (to the Bible). Time and time again apologists will debate an atheist, for instance, trying to outdo them through a variety of debate techniques without the Bible. It’s useless! Unless an unbelieving individual is presented the truth of God’s Word, opening the door for the Holy Spirit to change their heart, they will never get it even though we sit back and wonder why. Believers need to revise their approach based on what God’s Word says about spiritual wisdom as opposed to man’s wisdom. This applies to everything spoken about in the Bible – creation, existence of God, the concept of the Trinity, and everything else that has not been spiritually discerned.
Hi, Dale. You’re right. In fact we touched on this idea in today’s conversation …a discussion of yet another ICR article on how the redwood trees of California may provide evidence of a Great Flood. The question arises, then, about a Christian’s proper response to challenges to our faith. Do we engage and contest? …or turn the other cheek? Remaining silent would appear condescending. And, perhaps, then, evangelism is most effectively performed not by discussion and browbeating, but by simply living in the way of Jesus. In a very real way, that’s what Broken Road Radio is attempting to do day after day.