Why young people leave the Church

This may be my last post for time being. I am running out of ideas. I will post more when I accumulate drafts, but it will be a Saturday you will not expect. Sounds like Matthew 24:44.

Bible vs. evolution

The majority of atheists admit they don’t want there to be a God. But don’t they want a God that will defeat evil and save them from death, not to mention put an end to COVID?

But those who love God often leave the Church because they deem Christianity to conflict with the established facts of science. They deem evolution to prove the Bible unrealiable, that if the Genesis account of Creation can’t be believed, no part of the Bible can be trusted. They insist that the “history” in the Bible is just corrupt oral tradition.

But young-Earth creationists insist that the Bible should take precedence over science and that evolution doesn’t prove the Bible unrealiable, it’s the other way around – the Bible proves science unreliable.

One verse used to support the idea that evidence for evolution was placed to test our faith in the Genesis account of creation, and that transistional forms were created as fossils and never lived. 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 is used to support that. Evolution may be the “strong delusion” referred to by that verse. The main problem is Hebrews 6:18 which says that God cannot lie, and atheists know it. Also, the “strong delusion” of 2 Thessalonians 2:11 more likely is alien deception. Evidence for evolution would more likely “false signs and wonders” of 2 Thessalonians 2:9. I wonder why 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 is not on talkorigins.org

Censorship could be to blame for atheism. Evidence for God may be censored because the atheistic liberals are afraid the information will convince or sway people of the reality of God.

Hatred for God

Some people leave the Church because they hate God, insisting “God wouldn’t forbid such a good thing.” They ask “What’s so wrong with X that God would hate it?” They think God falsely forbids certain things like magic practices. Some believe in God but wish he didn’t exist. They insist that God falsely declares people to deserve hell. It’s BECAUSE God hates the sins people love that the people hate God.

They even tell Jahveh or Allah “Give me an honest answer!” But in ALL-CAPS H1 with a bunch of exclamation points (!) after it, which I will not write because I know it would be obnoxious. Yelling on top of their lungs! When I say H1, I mean… well, just think of HTML tags.

I insist that if God loved the lusts of the flesh, or rather just loved what appeals to mankind, loves what’s attractive, and didn’t punish people for doing whatever they love, more people would love God, and overall people would love God more. But God insists in my head “Not necessarily!”

Can there be a revival?

I hope for the LGBTQ+ Community to suffer the same fate as the hippie culture of the late-60’s, and for a seventh Great Awakening to occur. I’m referring to the movie Jesus Revolution.

Many religions

There are exactly two groups of religion: Christian and non-Christian. Catholicism, Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anglicanism, and Eastern Orthodoxy as well as the Free Church belong to the Christian group, all other religions (including Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism) belong to the non-Chrisitan group.

Evidence and belief

We can’t prove that God doesn’t exist. The existence of God is not testable. The existence or inexistence of God is beyond the realm of science. Neither can science disprove life after death, whether it be reincarnation or heaven.

If atheists see Jesus return in the rapture, you’d think they would say “Oh! Now I believe in him now that I see him.” But that’s not believing. That’s walking by sight.

Just because the none of the religion’s god’s are real doesn’t mean there is no God. It also doesn’t mean there is no life after death. I’m thinking of an abstract religion.

Reincarnation is fully compatible with evolution. And evolution is compatible with belief in God, just not with belief in the Christian god.

Science and spirituality

Units of time

God may have created lunar months to be exactly four weeks (28 days), and a year to be exactly 12 lunar months (336 days or 48 weeks). Then solar years god slightly longer and days slightly shorter as a product of the Fall of Sin, but lunar months stayed more or less the same.

Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

Contrary to popular belief, the speed of light is not constant, it’s actually decreasing. The speed of light may have been ten billion times faster on the Fourth Day than it is today. Alternatively, the speed of light was ten billion times faster during the Planck Era or Inflation Period than it is today. Reference: In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood, by Walt Brown. https://www.creationscience.com/

Where did the speed of light come from? Are cosmological constants eternal? How could the speed of light just HAPPEN to be what it is?

I posted something similar last week: https://wqscience.wordpress.com/2023/04/15/the-speed-of-light-is-not-constant/

Quantum mechanics

String theory postulates that there are ten dimensions, 11 if you count time. But seven of them are small.

Could even living things have seven additional dimensions, so small that they (including us humans) cannot sense or perceive them?

Maybe God created the world to be ten dimensions, not three. Then after either the Fourth Day, the Fall, or the Flood, seven dimensions shrunk greatly and three dimensions grew to cosmological scale.

The oceans were not created salty like they are today

One issue is that most of marine life cannot survive in freshwater. Most sharks, including great whites, require at least half of the salinity of the ocean.

Maybe before the fall, the oceans weren’t exactly created freshwater, but created less salty than today.

Maybe creatures were initially adapted to more freshwater.

Noah’s flood made the oceans saltier. Then creatures had to adapt to the saltier water.

How to reconcile the Bible with modern science

Many people have left the church because they deem Christianity to conflict with the established facts of science. Blame evolution for lack of faith!

How do we reconcile the Bible and modern science?

It’s not the gap theory. It’s not day-age creationism. I like the framework theory though.

Young Earth creationism is reinterpreting the scientific evidence in attempt to fit it with their religious beliefs. Theistic evolution is reinterpreting Scripture in attempt to fit it with the established facts of modern science. Old Earth creationism is a combination of both. Neither of them seem to work.

But here are at least two possible ways to reconcile the Bible with modern science.

Scheduled creation or non-linear-time creation-evolution theory

On the third day, God set plants to be created at a certain time. On the fourth day, God set the Sun, Moon, and stars to be created millions of years before that certain time plants were created.

Genesis 2 give a different order of creation of man and trees than Genesis 1.

Merged timeline creation-evolution theory

Can two pasts have the same present? Can two presents have the same future? Maybe BOTH creation and evolution happened, just in different pasts. Sounds like a Breath of the Wild kind of scenario.

Before I get to the fan theory, I’ll just say that it’s popular that Breath of the Wild is in the Fallen Hero timeline. It takes place long after all of the other Zelda games, but it doesn’t fit into any particular timeline. The fan theory goes that Breath of the Wild is a merge of both the Adult Link and Child timelines, but that fan theory hasn’t been confirmed and as far as I’m aware, it has yet to be debunked.

It’s also like merging continuities in Marvel and DC. But while Marvel, DC, and Zelda are all fictional, there’s no reason that God could do the same thing and merge timelines in real life. God’s all-powerful.

Maybe the original past was Creation, but sometime after the Fall or the Flood, God changed the past to an evolutionary past. Maybe the evolutionary past was created as a product of the Fall of Sin.

Quantum Mechanics and string theory

String theory teaches there are ten dimensions, 11 if you count time. Seven dimensions are so small, but might have been once much larger. I will write an article about religion and quantum mechanics in two weeks.

Maybe BOTH creation and evolution happened at the same time, but in different points of the seven dimensions. Inspired by Hugh Ross “Reasons to Believe.”

Maybe objects were swapped between the evolution and creation timelines?