His complaint is that, in a post I linked to which provides a very brief account of\u00a0how I came to a personal faith, there is a lack of reference to Scripture. Apparently complete, unconditional surrender of one\u2019s life to God in Christ is not enough for Ham. Yet I suspect that someone having gone through \u201c4 spiritual laws\u201d (on a tract featuring verses taken from their context) and\/or\u00a0having uttered the \u201csinner\u2019s prayer\u201d (which of course Jesus makes his disciples say in all four Gospels, as I\u2019m sure you know) would\u00a0have their faith accepted by\u00a0Ham, no questions asked \u2013 as long as that person was a young-earth creationist, preferably one that supports Answers in Genesis. <\/p>\n
Ironically, my born-again experience was followed not long after by my embracing young-earth creationism. The only difference between Ham and myself when it comes to this particular point is that I continued to learn about both the Bible and science, whereas Ham\u00a0has emphasized that\u00a0he has nothing to learn from those with genuine expertise in either area.<\/p>\n
So\u00a0once again I\u2019m delighted to say that my faith is not what Ham thinks it should be. It is a result of a life-changing experience<\/a>, not a merely\u00a0intellectual assent to theological propositions. It\u00a0arose\u00a0from\u00a0an encounter with the divine reality to whom Scripture points, not a bibliolatry that substitutes Scripture in the place of God. And yet precisely for that reason, I\u2019ve felt free to let go of views I had once assumed in my immaturity were the only true Christian stance, precisely because the evidence provided by the Bible itself necessitated my doing so. <\/p>\n
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