Is there a Christian way to fly an airliner? Or a Christian way to build a house? Not really. These are technical skills requiring both expertise and some theoretical knowledge but no application of Christian faith.
There is a Christian way to live though, offering a path through the difficulties and existential uncertainties of life. I think that has more substantial appeal.
No matter how comfortable, prosperous, lucky, and secure we are these days, our lives have a beginning and an end, with beyond that being a cloud of mystery. At its best, Christianity offers answers based on both faith and reason and can be reconciled with modern science.
Jesus was a carpenter to the glory of God, but think of fields like Medicine, Bioethics, Pharmaceuticals (especially in the way of mental health.)
On that note: Psychology/Psychiatry...If there is a such thing as a “soul” — then secular psychiatry can be rather simplistic.
Law. On what reality or truths do we base concepts of right and wrong?
The study of History.
- If Jesus was a real person who truly died, truly rose, and truly will come again — then all history truly is divided into B.C. and A.D. and our entire understanding of the world from Creation forward should be shaped in light that reality.
One God who created all peoples, rules over all nations, and personally entered the human story 2,000 years ago.
Most classics of Western Literature are impossible to grasp without Biblical literacy. As are most works of Western art throughout history.
On that note: the Arts. What does it mean to be a Christian storyteller. How can a Christian make good films that even a non-believer will find compelling and moving?
Science, Geology, Astronomy, Biology, Paleontology — is Darwinism and Evolution a safe basis from which to base these fields?
Reason tells us that our lives have a beginning and an end. But reason is but a small part of our thought process.
The Liberals in the Democrat Party long ago learned this and set out to exploit the fact that in the vast majority of people emotion overwhelms reason. Emotion frames our experiences, colors them and makes them real.
Death has been far removed from the daily life of most people in the modern world. We rarely ever experience death in our daily lives. We die in hospitals and nursing homes for the most part. Often alone. Our families too busy to attend to the needs of a sick parent or child they are in the hospital cared for by professional care givers.
My mother as a child watched her grandfather be consumed by cancer in her parents’ home. She helped care for him until she watched him take his last breath. His funeral was in that same house.
Death was real, and it was personal. In the modern world death has been removed from our daily lives and has been farmed out to professionals.
Death is a concept that most do not deal with until it comes knocking at our own door.
With out the emotions of dealing with death we do not truly recognize its reality.
In the past every person who reached the age of 12 had watched several close relatives die. Death was always near and personal.
It is easy to discount an afterlife because people emotionally do not experience the end of this life.
No afterlife, no God.