If you had to guess what the number one reason for Christians that attend secular universities to leave their faith what would you guess?
I’m sure that some might guess that it would be liberal teaching. Others would guess that they get into the wrong crowds. And I suppose some could argue that these college students may never have been saved in the first place.
Now, I know that some secularists and atheists would be glad for this– the problem is that evolution is not an inarguable fact. Millions of years, go-to-you-via-the-zoo– all this stuff attacks the foundation of a Christian’s faith and the fact is that they are willing to do whatever it takes to state that evolution is incontrovertible, and that if you believe anything else you’re insane.
To them, evolution is their founding story, it justifies their “faith” that there is absolutely no God. The problem is that Christians are not as adamant in their beliefs– they’re willing to accommodate, consider, and even accept evolution and in doing so they tear the roots of Christianity right out from under it.
You see, Christianity rests on Christ coming to die for sinners– to be our sin for us. And the Creation story tells us how man became sinners in the first place and is the first recorded place where there’s a prophecy about the One that would come to save. Without Creation, we don’t know why He came or why we’re sinners. Without Creation, we don’t know what “history” in the Bible we can trust and what we should just consider tall tales.
Creation is foundational to a Christian’s belief– and if that is taken away, it loses a lot of its meaning to many people.
This is a neat year for Christmas Shopping. It’ll be our first year of shopping without having any debt.
Ever since this summer when we paid off the last of our credit debt we have been saving money to both get our emergency fund back up and have money for Christmas– we wouldn’t want to go back into debt, now would we?
This past weekend we decided that we have to sit down and start to get everything together to start buying gifts. We like to get our shopping done early.
Have you started buying gifts yet? I know that some people actually exchange gifts at Thanksgiving, and that means that you probably have a lot of it done already. They have traditional coupons and discounts listed, and will have special sales for Black Friday and Cyber Monday! I know of a lot of ladies around me that try to get the best deals on Black Friday, but unless it’s compelling I’d rather avoid the rush.
