Re: Why?/Re: Answersingenesis

From: M.B.Roberts (topper@robertschirk.u-net.com)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2001 - 08:27:01 EDT

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    Jonathan,

    You know as well as I do that a kangaroo can hop all the way from Sydney to
    the Tigris and hop back again! It would be unntruthful to conceal such
    wonderful truths for our youngsters. If we dont they might become Christians

    Yours

    Screwtape.

    I totally agree with you and I get fed up with kiddies view of the Ark and
    think we should complain at every oppurtunity.

    Somewhere Martin Rudwick wrote that many criticiuse the Christian Faith from
    an understanding which stopped developing when they left sunday school at 10
    or 11.
    A recent silly example is the Diocesan Children's work in Blackburn diocese
    which held a Noah's Ark day at Blackpool Zoo thus reinforcing heresy and
    destroying kiddies' faith
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Jonathan Clarke" <jdac@alphalink.com.au>
    Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
    Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 11:11 AM
    Subject: Re: Why?/Re: Answersingenesis

    >
    >
    > "M.B.Roberts" wrote (in part):
    >
    > >
    > > However I suspect but have no evidence that sunday School teachers
    naively
    > > were YEC without knowing they were and thus fixed yec sympathies at
    grass
    > > root level
    > >
    > > Michael
    >
    > I think the role of SS material, together with Bible story books, etc., in
    > formulating attitudes of Christians to a number of issues is under
    estimated.
    > This is especially the case that such material is often visual. How many
    > pictures of the garden of Eden for example, have lions lying with the
    lamb, or
    > even dinosaurs in the background with a pale skinned blond or brown haired
    Adam
    > and Eve (Adam clean shaven of course) with strageically placed greenery in
    the
    > foreground? Or with the flood account, how many have animals from the
    Americas
    > east Asia, or Australia boarding the ark? the power of such images in
    colouring
    > the perceptions of people, especailly those who might think no further
    about
    > them, may be very great.
    >
    > Jon
    >
    >
    >



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