Posted on 09/17/2021 6:22:18 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6
But "little" is not "nothing", and every such discovery adds to the thoughtful believer's joy, as he savors yet another of the innumerable elements of the richness of God's Word. Your contribution enhanced my joy today.
To continue to belabor, I knew the term with regard to baseball, but I’d never heard it applied metaphorically to the Bible!
“Are you familiar with Christian astrophysicist and apologist Dr. Hugh Ross, or his science/faith think tank, Reasons to Believe?”
Extremely. I’ve been reading his books for over 20 years. He did what I yearned to do in 90s: create a valid, testable, scientific proposition based upon the Bible. I think they’re around 90% successful in their prediction rates over the past 25 years.
Not only me, but my daughter has been very active in apologetics and Reasons to Believe since she was in college in 2008.
Hugh was Minister of Evangelism (the stories he tells!) and an Elder, and he taught a Sunday class which I loved attending. He is still teaching it, and I still attend online (log in here, past videos here).
In '85 the senior pastor encouraged Hugh to start the fulltime ministry, and Hugh and Kathy founded it out of their apartment. Curiously, around the same time next door in Arcadia, James Dobson started Focus on the Family--we got to watch both ministries take off.
Finally, one last inside baseballism: Hugh's first scholar-hire was staff philosopher Ken Samples, who drove a truck for me in the early '80s while attending college; I recommended Hugh to Ken while he was on-staff at The Bible Answer-Man.
Very cool! Now I know someone who knows someone famous before they were famous! Although Hugh and Cathy seem to be down-to-earth people from what I’ve read of them.
You also all seem to be about the same age: in your 70s. I’m in my 60s, but I have no fear of the 70s!
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