THE APOLOGETIC FRONT: "What should we preach about Creation?" by John Piper

Mike Felker made a great post on his blog analyzing John Piper's remarks about Genesis. I thoroughly enjoyed the post. It is extremely well-written. Wonderful. Mike and I disagree on eschatology and using the genealogies to find the age of the earth, but even given that he makes so many great incontravertible points.

Here is where the wheels start to fall off the truck. "The evidence says X, but I'm going to just believe Y." I am very unsympathetic to such a view. As those who claim to believe the truth, as Christians, we should never advocate or support any position that holds to "faith" in opposition to the evidence. That is not what biblical faith is:

“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”
(Hebrews 11:1)

Is biblical faith blind? Of course not. Biblical faith can only work in compliance with "assurance." And what is our assurance based on? The past. For instance, everyone wakes up in the morning and gets out of the bed with the assurance that we will not float to the ceiling. Instead, we expect that our feet will hit the floor based on the norm of past experience. Thus, we have a sense of assurance based on our past experience.

 Mike made such an awesome post and well worth reading.

THE APOLOGETIC FRONT: "What should we preach about Creation?" by John Piper