tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485976854797012884.post3741775337847861879..comments2023-11-03T02:50:01.781-05:00Comments on Window To My World: Already Gone by Ken Ham and Britt BeemerKimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02101345724592651458noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485976854797012884.post-5356093138323119102009-10-16T22:02:30.045-05:002009-10-16T22:02:30.045-05:00Fascinating chapter and troubling statistics. I, ...Fascinating chapter and troubling statistics. I, along with others, have been concerned about the general lack of depth in the teaching of kids at church. (Yes, I agree it's the parents' responsibility, but the church is a partner.) Too many churches have been far too focused on gimmicks and making it "fun" and "entertaining" to the extent that church becomes just another arcade and the kids don't learn any substance. My girl said last year that they tried to do a Bible Drill at her 8th grade Bible Study and she was the only one who could find the verses or even knew where the books of the Bible were. And these were girls that had been raised in the church since they were babies. Parents have got to step up to the plate, and the church needs to teach truth.<br /><br />Great thoughts, Kim!Mocha with Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16387717261200678465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485976854797012884.post-78483386897840948752009-10-16T15:33:51.767-05:002009-10-16T15:33:51.767-05:00Andi -
Thanks for dropping by. It's okay to a...Andi - <br />Thanks for dropping by. It's okay to agree to disagree, and I think that's where we find ourselves. The Bible instructs parents to train up a child in the way he should go...and my husband and I have taken that responsibility to heart. God saved the souls of my children a couple of years ago, and we continue to equip them with the truth of God's Word as they grow.<br /><br />They will leave home one day, and I expect mistakes along the way. But they will have the foundation of God's Word to lean on and guide them through life's trials. God is their safe haven, not me or their dad.Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02101345724592651458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485976854797012884.post-51201922510345723072009-10-16T15:27:49.013-05:002009-10-16T15:27:49.013-05:00Nathan - If believing what the Bible says is true,...Nathan - If believing what the Bible says is true, then I believe that "hokum". Sorry if that bothers anyone. I think the basic point being made is that parents are turning the authority of teaching of their children over to the church and the public school system without getting involved and teaching them foundational BIBLE doctrine at home. Without the underpinning of truth, children can't recognize the lies of evolution and its like. The parents are responsible for teaching the children doctrine...according to God's Word. I think that's the point Ken Ham is trying to make.<br /><br />I am still reading this book, and so far, I've found nothing that would remotely qualify as "hokum". My family has supported Answers in Genesis for years.Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02101345724592651458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485976854797012884.post-65264404383077611792009-10-16T13:36:41.484-05:002009-10-16T13:36:41.484-05:00You don't need a book to tell you why kids are...You don't need a book to tell you why kids aren't attending church anymore. I can tell you why. It's because it's been shoved down their throats, they haven't been allowed to experience life and make their own decisions and be trusted based on their parents raising which is a travesty. If parents would trust the way that they raised their kids and allow them to make mistakes and come home to the soft place to fall kids would feel more at home to go back to church instead they feel shunned and afraid. Church is suppose to be a home not a place where we point fingers yet that is what it has become. Just my .02Andihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427083039276649574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485976854797012884.post-85204566825841174782009-10-16T08:01:34.633-05:002009-10-16T08:01:34.633-05:00I would strongly dispute your claim that Ham's...I would strongly dispute your claim that Ham's book is "...true, unbiased research explained ...through Biblical perspective."<br /><br />Firstly, no one puts out utterly biased one-note polemic like Ken Ham. Ken Ham, like all Young Earth Creationists are worse than biased. They willfully distort, invent and lie to make their cases, and that can't be good for the Church.<br /><br />Second, Ham's so-called Biblical perspective is actually a very narrow, very bronze-age, and very Biblically dishonoring strain of über-literalism. The same tragic misreading that has strict jews wearing phylacteries because the Scriptures say "keep the word before you" features in Youth Earth Creationism.<br /><br />Instead, I contend that Ham's entire thesis is 180º out. Literalism, once exposed to the light of a <i>good</i> high-school science education withers away, leaving young people who would otherwise have gone on strong in the faith abandoning it becuase they were taught that if you don't beleive the Flintstones was a good depiction of history (Dinosaurs and Humans together, etc), then you can't be a good Christian either.<br /><br />As a former Christian youth leader, I am happy to accuse Ham and his ilk of pushing thousands, if not millions of intelligent, seeking young people away from Jesus by adding all their hokum to the plain truth of the Scriptures.Nathan Zamprognohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18292757767183001630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485976854797012884.post-75948990678933725622009-10-15T09:25:58.448-05:002009-10-15T09:25:58.448-05:00Hey Tami!
kimfurd at hotmail dot com! I'll se...Hey Tami!<br /><br />kimfurd at hotmail dot com! I'll send you a note!Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02101345724592651458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-485976854797012884.post-16016069509109849432009-10-15T09:21:13.769-05:002009-10-15T09:21:13.769-05:00Hi Kim!
Just wanted to say hello! My laptop is do...Hi Kim!<br />Just wanted to say hello! My laptop is down, so I don't have your email. I hope you are doing well. I miss my blogging buddies. <br />TamiTamihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02748710404871366308noreply@blogger.com