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To: mockingbyrd
Thanks for posting this. Great timing.

Glad to hear it!

I teach a class, which meets tonight, called Keeping Your Faith after Highschool. We address dorm life, challenges to faith in both the classroom and workplace. This will be a great article to read and discuss. Maybe I'll assign them to come up with their own rebuttle.

This is a GREAT idea! I myself am a huge proponent of teaching apologetics to young people. Never be afraid of questions! Just because we may not have the answers, does not mean the answers aren't out there. Let me know what happens!

For we are in a world that raises questions, to which, however, only the Bible gives sufficient answers. The God of the Bible does not abolish the questioner, the individual human being. It encourages him to seek and to find more. All other religions finally do away with either the person or the question. They ask for submission to a larger whole, to fate or to a god or gods. The Bible invites you to examine and to acknowledge the answers given in the prophets and in the person of Jesus, the Son of God.
- Udo and Debby Middelmann

14 posted on 02/23/2007 9:13:12 AM PST by Alex Murphy
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To: Alex Murphy
Never be afraid of questions! Just because we may not have the answers, does not mean the answers aren't out there.

That is exactly the point of the class. And it is important that you take ownership of your beliefs and know why you believe what you believe.

19 posted on 02/23/2007 9:25:55 AM PST by mockingbyrd (peace begins in the womb)
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To: Alex Murphy
Never be afraid of questions! Just because we may not have the answers, does not mean the answers aren't out there.

Quoting from (possibly faulty) memory:

A thousand difficulties do not equal a single doubt. -- Ven. John Henry Cardinal Newman.

21 posted on 02/23/2007 9:36:35 AM PST by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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To: Alex Murphy
! I myself am a huge proponent of teaching apologetics to young people. Never be afraid of questions! Just because we may not have the answers, does not mean the answers aren't out there

I try to do the same thing with the kids in the high school Sunday school class I teach. I am a proponent of inoculation - it is far better that they be introduced to these issues earlier rather than later, and learn that questioning stuff like this is 100% acceptable.

45 posted on 02/23/2007 10:58:32 AM PST by jude24
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