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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