Is Christianity just a God of the gaps? | Rapp Report 2-minute Daily 0030 | Andrew Rappaport | SFE | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- Question came in is, isn't Christianity just a God of the gaps?
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- What is God of the gaps? The idea of God of the gaps is that when you can't answer something, something that just doesn't make sense, you just throw
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- God into the gap and say, that's the solution. How can you explain creation?
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- Well, you just throw God in and say, that's how it happened. And the idea of God of the gaps is that when you can't answer something, you just throw
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- God in as the solution. But the argument that unbelievers make is that that's not actually a solution because it doesn't explain anything.
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- However, do they really have a solution? See, they have a science of the gaps.
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- That's right. When they run into problems that don't make any sense, like the fact that you can't have nothing explode into everything, they just say, it's science.
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- They try to use big words to confound people, to make them think that there's really science behind it.
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- But in fact, nothing is nothing. It's not something. So nothing can ever blow up into everything.
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- No, the reality is what many atheists do is they have a science of the gaps. They shove science in when they can't explain things.
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- And don't worry, because the science they said was solidified and perfect before, they'll change that in the future when they find better science to explain the gaps they have.
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- No, we Christians don't need to worry about a God of the gaps issue. In fact, we know that without God, they wouldn't be able to do the science that they shove into the gaps.
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