Hi
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At a convention in St. Louis, a teenage girl stopped by our booth and started talking with my wife, Carrie. She obviously could see from our material what our ministry was about, and she began to talk creation with her. She told Carrie that she had grown up with "all of that Creation stuff", having had books and videos from
various creation organizations. However, she then began to lament that she had a friend who is not a believer, and he had been asking her all kinds of questions that were quite basic, most of them about origins issues. She couldn't answer one of them!
It's one thing to know what you believe about creation, but it's another to be able to defend it or have an answer to the questions.
After all, the Bible tells us to be ready to give an account of the hope that we have (1 Peter 3:15) and also to study so that we can be workers who aren't ashamed (2 Tim. 2:15). Of course, we probably won't have an answer for every question that people have about teachings in the bible (I certainly don't!), but we should be at least able to offer a reasoned defense of our faith. If someone sees that we can't answer the simplest questions regarding creation, how can they trust us when we
talk about our relationship with the Creator?
