Yeah, "historic" Christianity (what 16th century?) has plenty of answers such as : "if God wanted man to fly, He would have given him wings!" or "my eyes are green because God made them that way" or "I am poor/rich/stupid/smart/healthy/sick/disabled etc. because God made me that way, for His glory."
That "historic" Christianity (more like Manicheanism) also denies that prehistoric man existed, or that dinosaurs ever existed. When my older daughter, for social reasons, started to attend a Baptist Church in her early teens she told me the fossils were planted in the earth by Satan to deceive us. She learned this from "historic" Christianity. The "historic" Christianity may have plenty of answers, but not all answers are valid answers, FK.
Yeah, "historic" Christianity (what 16th century?) has plenty of answers such as : "if God wanted man to fly, He would have given him wings!" ...
Actually, that couldn't be further from the truth. My faith believes that God is in control of everything and there is no such thing as luck (as opposed to other faiths). Therefore, we would say that if God wanted man to fly then He would have granted him the inspiration of a flying machine. He did, at exactly the time He had predestined. The idea that God was powerful enough to do this was not born in the 16th century, unless you would like to argue that point.
[continuing:] ... or "my eyes are green because God made them that way" or "I am poor/rich/stupid/smart/healthy/sick/disabled etc. because God made me that way, for His glory."
If God does not determine these things, then who or what do you say does? Blind luck?
That "historic" Christianity (more like Manicheanism) also denies that prehistoric man existed, or that dinosaurs ever existed. When my older daughter, for social reasons, started to attend a Baptist Church in her early teens she told me the fossils were planted in the earth by Satan to deceive us. She learned this from "historic" Christianity. The "historic" Christianity may have plenty of answers, but not all answers are valid answers, FK.
I can assure you that Southern Baptists do not teach that satan buried fake dinosaur bones. However, neither do Southern Baptists accept classic Darwinism. Many scientists throughout time thought that in their day they had figured out "the truth". How many of them were right by today's standards? How many of them will still be right 500 years from now? Man LOVES to fancy himself as having figured everything out.