Re: Who wrote, Dick Fischer deserves a hearing?

From: Walter Hicks (wallyshoes@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Jan 01 2002 - 13:38:23 EST

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    Thanks Bob,

    I ("Wally") get blamed for enough already :-)..

    Wally

    RDehaan237@aol.com wrote:

    > In a message dated 12/31/01 3:57:30 PM, glenn.morton@btinternet.com writes:
    >
    > << Glenn -- I think it was Wally, not I, who made those points. The idea
    >
    > >that Adam, as characterized in early Genesis, is a literal person, does
    >
    > >not seem very likely to me -- probably because of my faith background.
    >
    > >Arguments that he was a literal human always seem to me to be missing the
    >
    > >place of the Genesis accounts, as well as not really very important. One
    >
    > >needs to be much more a literalist than I to even take such arguments
    >
    > >seriously, let alone ascribe to them any credibility.
    >
    > > >>
    >
    > ASAers,
    >
    > Let me settle the question of who asked that Dick Fischer be given a hearing.
    > I did.
    >
    > On Dec. 27, 2001 under the subject line of "Re: Exegesis or Eisegesis?" I
    > wrote << All Dick is asking, as I understand him, is for his historical and
    > anthropological research to be addressed in its own right. I agree with him.
    > His two articles are available on the website given above. Why doesn't
    > someone evaluate them in terms of the data and conclusions he presents rather
    > than whether his research agrees with one's favored theological theories?
    > >>
    >
    > Bob

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