Glenn wrote,
<< The really important question is why didn't God inspire that type
[scientifically true even if not accurate in all details) of account? Three
answers--
1. He isn't really there
2. He didn't inspire the Bible (thus we need to search on)
3. He is a Clintonesque liar (someone who doesn't tell the truth is a liar).
4. He isn't powerful enough to inspire anyone much less raise a man from the
grave.
Of course, you will say that he inspired wonderful truths about God's
dealing with humanity. I can't see it being wonderful or true if it is made
up from the whole cloth of falsity! And what is amazing to me, is that you
chose to believe as true what is clearly false. Why would anyone in their
right mind do that?>>
I think there is a perfectly reasonable and biblical alternative:
God has delegated the discovery of natural truth to mankind (Gen 1:26-28) and
consequently does not reveal those kinds of truths. I see no claims anywhere
in Scripture to the effect that God intends to reveal truths of the natural
world. I see throughout the Bible, including in the life and teaching of
Jesus, accommodation to the science of the times.
It is not logical to say that if God accommodated his revelation of spiritual
truths to ancient science, then he is making the science up from the whole
cloth of falsity. He is not making anything up.
Paul
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