Wayne writes
>When the foundations
>of the six day creation crumbled, the rest of the faith
>gradually died with it.
Thanks for the contribution, Wayne. Earlier in your note
you mentioned that none of us has a right to insist on our
interpretation. I'll take this a five steps further.
A) YECs greatly fear the truth. How much denial do you
think Henry Morris is in?
B) When one examines the truth, one tends to get convicted.
Far easier to question the motivation of the person
providing the truth.
C) I put the blame squarely on seminaries. Do they make an
honest effort to discuss all sides, and let the truth
prevail? God help them if they don't.
D) Even if interpretations differ, we can all learn from
each other, and be strengthened by each other.
E) The greatest sins, IMHO, are pride and arrogance. Pride
is too much for me to tackle. Arrogance says "Let me
show you where you're wrong" A better approach is, well,
for starters, how about reading the OT? It's all about
Jewish people and their history. The length of creation
is one-two pages out of about eleven hundred. When I
read the OT, I was infuriated at everything being left
out of the Sunday pulpit (my last post about the 70 weeks
to Messiah prophecy being a prime example). A "day" is not
always 24 hours. If you have knowledge of the OT, taking
that position (what should we call this) is truth suppression.
Jim
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