During my time in high school, I was a very luke-warm Christian. I would
say that I believed in Jesus but did not act like it. This led to me not
being able to see the connection between science and sacred knowledge. I
had the idea and belief that it would always be God versus Science.
However, Entwistle (2015) explains best on how I grew past that thinking,
he states “If we understand that all of what God created was good, then
we must avoid creating an artificial separation between that which is sacred
and that which is secular” (p. 11). I do still believe that science can be
wrong at times, because of human error and we do not know all that God
does, but I am not against science as a whole anymore.
d d d d Growing up in the family I did, I definitely see that our views
lined up more on the side of Fundamentalism. My mom and dad were very
suspicious of most things that involve science, especially medically. (During
this time, one must imagine how it is going with them). d I do er more on
the side of being suspicious of science when it is being viewed as ‘bigger
than God’. I am not totally against it; God created the scientist and put
them in those positions, however, when society takes the scientist’s word
over the Father’s that is when I can get skeptical.
d d d d In terms of my intellectual virtues, I was raised by two army
vets, one who fought in Vietnam. I was raised that I do not start the fight,
but I am to finish it; Jesus says to turn the other cheek. I was also raised
to respect my elders, until they do not deserve it and then I am to put
them in their place. I lacked what Entwistle (2015) described as intellectual
humility, I did not receive instruction or criticism well or seek to learn more
(p. 101). I knew all that I needed, and you could not convince me
otherwise. I had to learn about God’s grace to get over my superiority
complex. Lambert (2016) wrote, “God does not want people to trust in their
own wisdom, so he destroys it through his own wisdom, the wisdom of the
cross” (p. 69).
References
Entwistle, D. N. (2015). Integrative approaches to psychology and christianity:
An introduction to worldview issues, philosophical foundations, and models of
integration. Cascade Books.
Lambert, Heath. A Theology of Biblical Counseling: The Doctrinal Foundations
of Counseling Ministry. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2016. Print.
