Joat42 wrote:cthia wrote:What I dislike about certain scientists is their close minded attitudes simply because faith cannot be explained.
It can, some people have genes (VMAT2) that predisposes them to be spiritual, aka believing in things that has no factual basis if framed in a certain way which can elicit feelings of being connected to something larger or the universe (transpersonal identification). It's speculated that this is the result of generations of genetic selection due to increased survivability of groups that had better cohesion, aka listen to the shaman trying to make sense of the world and you'll feel better that it was some spirit-god who took your child away to serve it and not the harsh reality of subsistence living that made it sick due to malnourishment.
Exhaustively setting aside your common "scientific" argument, you may be ignorantly citing the messy and controversial Doctrine of Predestination and Election.
John 15:16 wrote: "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you."
Jeremiah 1:5 wrote:“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
"Ignorant" is in no way meant to be a swipe at you. Many Christians are ignorant of the concepts as well. Perhaps because they are subjects that even many churches fear to tread. Therefore, they do not teach them.
Don, does your church teach Predestination and Election?