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.
c c c c c 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). c 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.
c c c c c 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.
