Jan de Koning wrote:
>
> At 10:47 PM 11/03/02 -0500, Walter Hicks wrote:
> >Let me do my honest best, Jan
> >
> >Jan de Koning wrote:
> > >
> > > At 05:53 PM 11/03/02 -0500, Walter Hicks wrote:
> >SNIP
> >
> >
> > > >I would have to say that over 90% of the Christians I know fall into one
> > > >of these two categories.
> >
> >
> > >
> Apparently you talk to different people than I do. I would say that here
> (in our church) it is the other way around, a sign that one has to be
> careful with general statements like that.
That is why I said the people that "I know". If I wanted to make a
general statement, I would have said something like "nearly everybody".
We all talk from our limited database and that is something that we all
must recognize.
>
> >I think it depends much
> > > on where you grew up, where you went to school etc. Even when I say that
> > > God revealed Genesis 1 (and there is much more than just Gen.1
> > > involved, Make it for the time being Gen.1-11. Where do you get the idea
> > > that it is the norm?
>
> >I can only say that it is the norm for the local area in which I live
> >now insofar as science is concerned. Insofar as "theology' is concerned,
> >it is typical of my present church and also of when we lived in El paso
> >texas.
> >
> >Perhaps the problem is one where we all live and the limited database we
> >all have.
>
> I have been in a study committee of our churches, and found that the lack
> of, or the type of elementary education has a lot to do with it. If you
> are going to elementary school in areas were "creationist" fundamentalists
> are in the majority teaching in elementary schools is different from
> teaching somewhere else. That is why we as Calvinists always have insisted
> on basic Christian schools from grade one to university.
My current area (Massachusetts) is one of extreme liberalism. If
anything, the school teachings are "humanist" in nature. In fact, the %
of Christians in Massachusetts is quite small.
>
> I have to leave now. Later more.
>
> Jan de K.
>
--Bye
Walt
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