How I see it...
Aug. 14th, 2005 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyear"Because of my belief in a creator, I regard that as a good thing. In fact, I would think that the best designed universe there could be would be one in which there were no seams, one that worked consistently and in which scientists could look as much as they wanted to, and not find any signs of tinkering, precisely because such tinkering had never occurred. Such a universe would also lack scientific proof for the existence of its designer, but perhaps a designer capable of doing so wouldn’t need the acknowledgement that he had done so.
Let’s leave God to me and to people like me—those who spend their time on religious issues. Let the religious discussions be financed by money paid or donated for the purpose of supporting religious discussion. Let the tax money paid to educate our children be used to educate." -- Henry E. Neufeld, president of Pacesetters Bible School, Inc.
Later, in a comment on the same thread, he writes, "I think that the books [of the Bible] may contain comments on things that their authors did not know. I do not accept the notion that the books are without error. I believe that faith can grow and be modified, and that it is quite appropriate that where one’s faith is found to conflict with fact (and you as an individual have to decide what is factual in this sense, hopefully with valid reasons) then one needs to look at what one believes."
and finally, "But there’s another point on which many religious people would disagree with me: I’m perfectly willing to say that I don’t know, and that further study will possibly clarify"
For saying that alone, as a theologian, he has my respect.
Let’s leave God to me and to people like me—those who spend their time on religious issues. Let the religious discussions be financed by money paid or donated for the purpose of supporting religious discussion. Let the tax money paid to educate our children be used to educate." -- Henry E. Neufeld, president of Pacesetters Bible School, Inc.
Later, in a comment on the same thread, he writes, "I think that the books [of the Bible] may contain comments on things that their authors did not know. I do not accept the notion that the books are without error. I believe that faith can grow and be modified, and that it is quite appropriate that where one’s faith is found to conflict with fact (and you as an individual have to decide what is factual in this sense, hopefully with valid reasons) then one needs to look at what one believes."
and finally, "But there’s another point on which many religious people would disagree with me: I’m perfectly willing to say that I don’t know, and that further study will possibly clarify"
For saying that alone, as a theologian, he has my respect.
