Education Not a Threat

I often hear folks caution students going off to college to not lose their faith. To some, education is a threat in that it brings to light new possibilities including the possibility the Bible does not say what they have been taught it says.

 

An advantage science has that the bible does not share is the thousands of scientists trying to prove it wrong. Science does not reward corroboration and the inability to disprove something lends credibility to it just may be true. Christians rarely challenge what the local congregation's spokesperson tells them the bible says.

 

Most Christians live in a cocoon where everyone is pretty much like the other. When we step outside the cocoon we occasionally see that reality is a bit different than what we believe. 

 

In classes I like to listen to those in the cocoon. Children have angels and that sort of thing. Did you know there is a market in the sex slave business for 4 to 7-year-old girls? Where are the angels? Where is God? On the other hand God will protect us.

 

Recently I read "A Train in Winter" by Caroline Moorehead.  It is the story of 230 women who were either part of the French resistance during the WWII German occupation of France or were in the wrong place at the wrong time; everyday people whose lives were turned into a Hell on earth. But I am sure it would not have happened if they had been Christians. Maybe they just did not pray enough.

 

Maybe "new" does not cause the youth to lose their faith but expand it? Research suggests they want to be more than an audience on Sundays.