Archive for September, 2005
09.10.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 3:17 pm by Perry
I have recently been having an ongoing discussion with my brother, Chris, over evolution vs. creation (catastrophic vs. uniformitarian development of the earth and man). Recently when studying for one of my classes I reviewed the Cell Doctrine Theroy that consists of the following three principles:
1.) All living things are composed of cells and cell products.
2.) A single cell is the smallest unit that exhibits all the characteristics of life.
3.) All cells come from pre-existing cells.
This last point is quite interesting as it supports Chris’ argument of a fist cause that is missing in evolutionary science. I am going to do some research on the explaination of how this final point, accepted as a scientific law, fits into another widely accepted scientific law, that is, evolution.
In the mean time I would appreciate any input from anyone who has done extensive research on this topic. I am a very scietific minded person who wants to eventually go into medicine. I try to rely on emperical evidence whenever possible and am now, once again, going to be searching for it.
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09.04.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:22 am by Perry
Can a person backslide in their faith? This has been a matter of contention for me for some time now. I am familiar with the reformed doctrine on perseverance of the saints and I have always felt that those are given faith will not lose it and those who claim to have lost faith never had it to begin with.
But what about those who are pursuing faith? Can a person who is seeking faith lose momentum and fall away from the pursuit?
To digress, my Freshmen year of college was a spiritual revival. I had grown up in “Christian” family where we occasionally attended church and took part in the sacraments of baptism and communion. It wasn’t until I became active in Campus Crusade, though, that I came to learn what it means to be a Christian.
Throughout the school year I became active in bible studies, real-life, group activities, and was even able to go to Chicago to do missions work over Spring Break. I made true friends; the kind who are honest and genuine. All of this showed me what it means to be a Christian. To truly humble oneself and devote their ENTIRE life to serving God. This was something completely alien to me and I absolutely loved it. I longed, and still do, to life with such fervent desire to honor God with everything I have.
But then summer break came. I think that the combination of working 65 hours a week, volunteering at the hospital, and trying to do some of the wedding stuff simply stole all of my time. I became apathetic to church and reading my bible and slowly lost contact with those people from Crusade who influenced me the most. I spent only a brief amount of time with anyone from school or in any activity centered on Godly things.
That is why I so desire to re-start school. It also makes me fearful though because I don’t want my faith, or the pursuit of it, to be pended upon the influence of others around me. Surely John the Baptist sustained his faith to his execution without the need of reassurance from anyone. If I learned anything this summer, it is that that is the faith I need. Faith that perseveres.
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09.01.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:38 pm by Perry
I was recently going over the statistics with Chris over the number of people I have visit my site every day, week, and month. I must say that I was astonished. I had no idea that so many people frequented this site. My question is this, where is everyone at? If you all stop by here so much why don’t you leave a note? Frankly, I am beginning to feel awfully lonely all by myself here in cyberspace,
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