What are Christians doing to combat the growing trend of people being too educated for Christianity?

Answer 1

They are coming up with more complex arguments which still make no sense. They create institutes for science which aim to prove they are correct.(not look for the correct answer) However they confuse people enough to stay.

PS *STAR* Awesome question.

Answer 2

Depends on which Christians one is talking about.

For those who attend Ted Haggard's churches, they failed to see that child sex abuse was a problem.

For those who support Joel Osteen and Pat Robertson, they are being ripped off due to false promises of materialism and inappropriate political support of Israel.

For the Catholic church, the pope is still infallible and not subject to any education other than seeing the treasury empty out due to sex abuse claims from long ago.

For the Greek Orthodox church, the hierarchs promote the Greek language while staring down a 90% interfaith marriage rate. Within a generation, there will be very few Greek speaking students at home or at school. For the other Orthodox denominations, they do a good job balancing secular education with religious education.

Educated people have always followed Christianity throughout history. It's the peasantry which was oppressed by Christianity - especially Catholicism in the New World.

Answer 3

I think there is nothing you can do about this since knowledge is so accessible these days. The only problem is so many sources are from ungoldly,secular, or humanistic viewpoints.

Also the whole world though the computer and cell phones and lap tops is gettng connected faster and information is quicker and faster fulfilling the prophecy of Daniel in Chapter 12: 4 "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased."

If they are serious about what believers in the Bible say about the scriptures then they need to go those sites.

Answer 4

What has education go to do with religion/ I really don't understand how you can possible relate the 2. Some of the world's top most scientists are priests (really, not so much in America for some reason I'll grant you, but definitely the case in Europe). I can't speak for the sect that you belong to, but I'd suggest that you speak to Jesuit priest (an order of Catholic priests), they are among the most educated priests around, they have to be in this day and age to help people understand that yes, even though you can now sit in a sofa across the room and turn on the TV, there is stil a God and this is how he manifests himself.

Answer 5

A few educated Christians you may have heard of:

Isaac Newton, Neils Bohr, Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Nicolaus Copernicus, Michael Faraday, James Clerk Maxwell, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger, Andreas Vesalius, Tycho Brahe, Max Planck, Enrico Fermi, Arthur Eddington, William Harvey, Carl Gauss, John von Neumann, Gregor Mendel, John Dalton, Alexander Fleming

The more education one has, the more they will find themselves drawn to the faith. My Ph.D. in engineering did not prevent me from staying the Christian I was before I was educated. In fact it only drove me to seminary and beyond.

Answer 6

I don't agree with you, thats my answer but...............

Gosh Desiree, hard to believe that such an intellect would ask such a stupid question. Goes to show, if you don't think before you speak, anything could roll off your finger tips and into the R&S site for all the world to see.

I would think that an education person would know that over 90% of the world believes in God. So I guess we have only managed to educate about 10% and isn't it great, you're one of them. Why your smarter than 90% of the world, wow, nice going smart one!

Have another cup of coffee and maybe your next question will make sense.

Answer 7

Too educated? Like yourself, perhaps?
Some of the greatest minds of western civilization belonged to Christians. For example, Isaac Newton, Neils Bohr, Louis Pasteur, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Nicolaus Copernicus, Michael Faraday, James Clerk Maxwell, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger, Andreas Vesalius, Tycho Brahe, Max Planck, Enrico Fermi, Arthur Eddington, William Harvey, Carl Gauss, John von Neumann, Gregor Mendel, John Dalton, and Alexander Fleming.

I'd like to know what college degree you posses that trumps this (brief) list? The guy who invented the IQ test was a Roman Catholic, for God's sake!

Answer 8

CS Lewis and Isaac Newton were not too educated for Christianity.

The Gospel of Jesus is so simple, even a child of five can understand it, yet so profound that many PhDs just don't get it.

Answer 9

There is no such thing as "too educated for Christianity." I know of a man who has a doctorate in neuroscience from Yale University, four undergraduate degrees (molecular and cellular biology, chemistry, biochemistry and philosophy), and two degrees in advanced theology. He is a Catholic priest.

Answer 10

"Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a "fool" so that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. As it is written: "He catches the wise in their craftiness", and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile." 1Corinthians 3:18-20
No matter how wise men get they will never be wiser than God. Christianity is a heart thing, a spiritual thing, a peace that passes all understanding.

Answer 11

as a Christian and a pastor(ish) type person, i'd say i don't want to combat it. i want people to think. i want people to have faith. and i don't want there to have to be a line between faith and science as the modern world has tried to draw.

i believe that one can be extremely educated, and not lose faith. knowing things that many Christians don't know (or refuse to believe) about Scripture, history, and theology doesn't ruin my faith for me, but instead brings a life to it that simply being told what to believe doesn't bring.

so rather than combat the problem, i'd much rather produce in my church a place where people are free to think, discuss, dialog, and wrestle. if one seeks to find God, God will make Himself found. if one seeks to stay away from God, no one, you, i, or anyone else, will change that until something in their heart chooses to look His direction.