I understand the concept and so did the Apostles. They also understood that world was flat and diseases were caused by demons, and Christ would return soon. Even so, because they were wrong, that does not make the entire Bible wrong. But since He did not return soon, Christianity marched on, for 2000 years now. The Catholic Church and then the Protestant reform redefined Christianity more than 30,000 different ways, and they are not done yet.
Give it another 1000 years and Christianity will probably be redefined again. But first it has to last, and that is up to the youth. The old fogies will be gone and the they are not going to keep juggling things that contradict the reality that they live in and functions at all levels of their lives. You keep preaching that science knows nothing...well science proves itself real and works for them, everyday of their lives. What you are talking about sounds like fantasy to them. They have the choice of just walk away....and Christianity fades away. Your choice....are you going to help destroy the future of Christianity?
I don't remember saying that science knows nothing. Science knows everything that is knowable by observation and experimentation. Anything that can't be observed or proved by laboratory experiments has to be accepted by faith that it could have happened.
According to Richard Dawkins, an eminent atheist, if evolution teaching is continued in the churches as they are at present, Christianity will be dead in two to three generations. We are already seeing an exodus of young people 20-25 away from the church as it fails to convince them that the Bible is really true and to give them Biblical and scientific answers to counter the atheistic brainwashing they are getting in the colleges and universities, and even in the most prominent seminaries. If only 15% of 20-25 year olds are attending churches now, and is rapidly decreasing, what Richard Dawkins is predicting could very well come true. It is amazing that it takes an atheist to tell the truth about something that church leaders are either unaware of or are burying their heads in the sand about.
There is definite scientific proof that the Bible is accurate (although not comprehensive) in its science. We know that when the Bible was written, many scientific discoveries we know about today were not known then.
But the Bible does talk about the earth hanging in space and is a sphere, but these verses were not linked until it was actually discovered through more modern science that the earth is a sphere, hanging in space! The prophet who talked about future "broad ways" where vehicles with bright lights would jostle each other" knew just about relatively narrow wagon and horse tracks, and even the Roman roads of the First Century did not fit the description. But when we see videos of motor vehicles on broad motorways, in rush hour and at night, then we see that the prophet's vision was accurate. How would the prophet know about future motorways unless the Holy Spirit told him?
So, as science brings new discoveries about how our world functions, what the Bible has said about those things have been shown to be true. Yes, First Century believers thought the world was flat, because there was no scientific observation to tell them otherwise. It wasn't until Galileo used a telescope and discovered other planets which were spherical and so our world must be the same; and the RCCs nearly burned him at the stake for it!
It was interesting that Ray Comfort asked evolutionists to show one piece of evidence based on actual observation according to the scientific method, rather than just on faith, and out of all the evolutionists he asked, none of them could provide an observable evidence. All they could do is talk about millions of years, and Ray said that he was not asking for faith statements which could not be observed. This showed that evolutionists couldn't use the scientific method to show proof. All they could do was to give statement based on belief and faith, trusting that what the evolutionists were teaching was correct.
It is interesting that many evolutionists would not accept that evolution was a belief system rather than a scientific one, even though the scientific method of observation and experimentation was the only way to prove something scientifically. So it really showed me that evolution is not a science at all, because there is nothing in actual science to prove it. So, it has to be a belief system where people take it by faith.