In response to Walt's comments:
To say that anyone can just reinterpret the Bible is true. But this is not
neccesarily what occurs when one begins to have a new and better
understading of the Bibe. If one reads the Bible, he would find that one of
the gifts of God is interpretation. Since Moses time people have sought to
understand gods word. Back then they had to take most on faith. Their
understanding of the world around them was lacking. Most of the laws of
Moses were just God's way of letting us know how bet to live. At that time
they just had to follow it. We now have the increasing ability to understand
God's universe through scientific insight. This can be used to better
interpret/understand God's word or we can just become self righteous and
believe that only man can find the truth. It is not that the Bible is right
or wrong. The Bible is correct, it is us who do not understand it. As simple
as the Bible is in words, we still do not have a full grasp of his word. How
humble should we then be? Let us become humble and begin to realize that our
science is but a meager talent of understanding compared to the process by
which God created the universe.
----Original Message-----
From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
Behalf Of Walter Hicks
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 5:07 PM
To: Michael Roberts
Cc: Jim Eisele; asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: ASA Perspective
Michael Roberts wrote:
>
> What is current naturalist science?
The material that is presented on this listserve about evolution or what
may be found on origins.org.
> >
> > If, on the other hand, you believe that the Bible is infallible, then
> > you have reject the claims of science.
> This is sheer nonsense, over the last 400 years or more many have believed
> both the claims of science and the infallibility of the Bible. I am one,
so
> are most in the ASA (if not all) and in Christians in Science and the
group
> for convicts down under (sorry Jon). The vast majority reputable
> evangelicals in the 19th century eg Warfield Hodge, Sedgwick, Hitchcock et
To which I say "poppycock". You can make anything "infallible" if you
just reinterpret the Bible every time that it does not hold water -- and
call it theology. Reality is that the Bible is inspired writing but it
does, in fact, have errors within it. Where does the Bible itself claim
to be infallible?
Walt
>
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Walt Hicks <wallyshoes@mindspring.com>
In any consistent theory, there must
exist true but not provable statements.
(Godel's Theorem)
You can only find the truth with logic
If you have already found the truth
without it. (G.K. Chesterton)
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