{"id":5651,"date":"2018-01-06T16:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T22:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tampaseo.expert\/focus\/?p=5651"},"modified":"2018-01-06T16:42:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T22:42:23","slug":"independent-thinkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tampaseo.expert\/focus\/2018\/01\/06\/independent-thinkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Thinkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Gina Simpson\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen we hear the phrase\u00a0<i>i<\/i><i>ndependent\u00a0<\/i><i>t<\/i><i>hinker<\/i>,\u00a0does it carry with it a positive or negative connotation? I think we&#8217;ve let the world give it a negative connotation, but I think it is something we as mothers need to be sure to instill in our children. The ability to think and reason for\u00a0themselves\u00a0regardless of what is popular, or what their peers, or what the media is telling them will be invaluable. I think some \u201cindependent thinking\u201d is exactly what we need in our classrooms, colleges, and world today.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nI have often wondered how people could buy into the theory of evolution as a plausible explanation for how we exist. I can remember a time in my life when I wasn&#8217;t sure that God existed. If He did, perhaps He just got the ball rolling and let evolution do the rest. Life would be meaningless without God, but my teachers introduced Charles Darwin and his theories. My textbooks showed phylogenetic trees,\u00a0and museums showed pictures of how I came from an ape. I went to a few churches and heard several preachers tell me about God, but many insisted I couldn&#8217;t understand the Bible on my own,\u00a0so I was left in quite a quagmire.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nI went off to college and it just so happened on the second day that I met this wonderful young man who happened to be a Christian. He began to study with me and things clicked into place. I was a logical, thinking human being who could read the Bible and do what it said. I could do that, but no one had ever pointed any of this out to me before. After reading Acts chapter two I was convicted\u00a0and convinced there was something I had to do to obey God&#8217;s commandments. I was baptized that Saturday and so began my Christian walk. Oh,\u00a0just in case you&#8217;re wondering,\u00a0I never did let that Christian go. I married him three years later.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nAll that back-story\u00a0brings me to my point. Why don&#8217;t most people see the simplicity of the Gospel? Not that the Bible is entirely simple, but people can read and understand it all by themselves. I think one of the main reasons is that we aren&#8217;t taught by society to be independent thinkers. For the most part we go along with what we&#8217;ve always been taught. In public school we&#8217;re introduced to Darwin&#8217;s theory replete with pictures and diagrams, and God&#8217;s creation is never mentioned. College is even worse. I got my degree in chemistry, and how any chemist\u00a0cannot be a creationist still boggles my mind. After sitting in hours and hours of classes and seeing how complicated it is to synthesize a single protein, after studying activation energies and increasing entropy, after memorizing amino acid after amino acid, I asked myself how can anyone believe that these things just happened? Of course I had to take a few biology classes,\u00a0which further convinced me that there must be a Creator. After studying the Krebs cycle,\u00a0the intricacies of a cell membrane,\u00a0and seeing how complex\u00a0embryonic development,\u00a0how can anyone not marvel at the Creator&#8217;s handiwork?\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nMy conclusion is that these scientists are not truly independent thinkers. They are mired in the doctrine they have been taught and have placed their faith in man rather than God.\u00a01 Corinthians 3:19-20 says,\u00a0\u201cFor the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, &#8216;He catches the wise in their own craftiness;&#8217;\u00a0and again, &#8216;The Lord\u00a0knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.&#8217;\u201d\u00a0In 1 Corinthians 1:20 we have pointed out to us, \u201cWhere is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?\u201d\u00a0The scientists of the world truly are fickle, ignoring their own laws and statutes just to make a false doctrine plausible in their own minds because they have already discounted the\u00a0True\u00a0Source\u00a0as impossible despite the evidence to the contrary.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nMothers, let&#8217;s teach our children to be independent thinkers. Teach them that it is okay to ask questions and to seek out answers. Let them ask questions about the Bible while they are in our household and use that opportunity to show them the infallibility and the true cohesiveness of the Word of God. Don&#8217;t let science scare you, for the science of today has truly become smoke and mirrors to uphold humanism and discount God, but it cannot hold up to the scrutiny of a truly independent investigation.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gina Simpson\u00a0 When we hear the phrase\u00a0independent\u00a0thinker,\u00a0does it carry with it a positive or negative connotation? I think we&#8217;ve let the world give it a negative connotation, but I think it is something we as mothers need to be sure to instill in our children. 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