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Fairly new and hoping for advice and help
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RE: Fairly new and hoping for advice and help
Welcome potch.
As reading material goes, it seems everyone else has covered the basics.

It may be god for you to know about a sure called iron chariots, which presents a lot of apologetics and counter apologetics.
You'll also need some more science to understand some the things presented... for the most part, Wikipedia is good enough get the basic idea.
Also, fear of Hell? Sounds like Pascal's wager... look up how to reason out of it in iron chariots.
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RE: Fairly new and hoping for advice and help
(May 16, 2014 at 4:46 pm)potch Wrote: Hello all! I was a Messianic Jewish believer, and have recently turned Agnostic, thanks to reading part of Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion." (Which I am trying to finish now.) I am about to start the Orthodox Messianic equivalent of seminary, and I was hoping that I could come to the people here for help in my research, as I'm worried that the science classes will be heavily biased and possibly contain misinformation. I want to really address both sides of the issue, and I know I need to discuss things with both sides in order to use as unbiased an approach as possible.

Do your own science reading; go to your local used bookstore or library and peruse the science sections, or ask for recommendations on science books here. There are a lot of really smart, science-minded people in these forums and I'm sure that they could recommend good books. As others have mentioned, Dawkins is a good resource to start with for biology and evolution.

Otherwise, how interesting it would be to go through seminary as an agnostic! Keep us informed of your studies as you go through it, but make sure to do extra reading to get the contrary positions so you don't succumb to confirmation bias.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
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