Yeah, I'm thinking I'm back

[Jay313 (Jay Johnson)]

@Ron0126

There has been quite a bit of it with my mother this week as she has been attending a conference at her church called “Is Genesis History?”

She should enjoy this BioLogos article/discussion: A Geological Response to the Movie “Is Genesis History?”

Thanks for a glimpse at your journey. Sounds like you hit every branch of the evangelical tree on your way down. Just to hit the highlights:

@Ron0126

My parents became believers when I was six years old. They experienced a radical change in their lives, going from hard-partying hippies of the late 1960s and early 1970s to the other end of the spectrum

The “Jesus Freak” movement

@Ron0126

In 1977 I actually met Duane T. Gish, who put the idea that dinosaurs roamed the earth alongside man into my 11-year-old head

The “Battle for the Bible” and YEC fundamentalism

@Ron0126

I was enrolled in a public school for 6th and 7th grade. My parents intervened in the school’s teaching of evolution.

Public schools demonized for teaching evolution.

@Ron0126

argue with evolutionists offline and online using Answers in Genesis data (maybe I should call it propaganda).

Arguing online recast as “witnessing”

@Ron0126

My business was struggling and I remember hearing a pastor say that God wants you to test him in regards to giving. “Test me now in this,” says the Lord of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows.” – Malachi 3:10 so I gave the church 10% of everything I earned only to watch my four largest accounts dump me. In my mind, God failed the test.

The TV evangelist Prosperity Gospel.

@Ron0126

I felt like I’d been lied to my entire life about the inerrancy of Scripture.

Strict inerrancy as a test of orthodoxy

@Ron0126

Francis Schaeffer’s book The God Who Is There . I did, although it is very difficult to grasp his concepts because he is constantly coming up with new words and new definitions. It. Is. A. Tough. Read.

Francis Schaeffer. The evangelical hero that no one actually reads. Congrats!

@Ron0126

Noah’s global flood - I don’t even want to get started on this one.

Yes. We should skip that one.

@Ron0126

I’ve come to value the Apostle’s Creed and the Nicene Creed because they boil the Gospel down to the essentials. It’s all about Jesus and the character and nature of God.

After all that wandering, welcome home! Not many emerge from the other side.