Jim Eisele wrote on Saturday, July 13, 2002 6:45 AM
>I may as well first say that I checked your "A Theory for Creationists"
>link.
>I give you credit for having the courage to tackle such a big issue. (Not
>that I agree with you).
>
>Your biblical interpretation severely suffers from lack of Hebrew
>knowledge,
>however. The Bible says that God made Adam, or "the adam" from the dust of
>the ground. "Ha'adam" is the Hebrew transliteration. That's all it says.
So, how many years of Hebrew study have you had? Dust must be interpreted
more broadly than just dirt. Dust of the ground consists of about 95%
silicon dioxide, montmorillonite [(Na,Ca)0,3(Al,Mg)2Si4O10(OH)2…n(H2O) ],
illite [ (K,H3O)(Al,Mg,Fe)2(Si,Al)4O10[(OH)2,(H2O)] ], and other inorganic
minerals. If we were really made of dust as we use the word, we would be
mostly metallic.
>
>There are (and were) plenty of good Christians who take this as an
>allegory.
>They underestimated the Bible.
>
>>From the Genesis in Question site
>
>>1Cor 15:45 speaks of the first man, Adam. It also speaks of the
>last Adam,
>>Christ. Adam is the first man in the family tree. The Bible is the story
>>of Christ and His line. No need to infer more than that from the text.
>>Adam is the first man to have a special, covenant relationship with God.
>>Also, Americans call George Washington the first President. We are not
>saying
>>that he is history's first head of state.
This has always been a bit of a puzzle to me about Dick's God. God says
that he reaches out to mankind, that he doesn't want anyone to perish. Yet,
here, in this view, God makes no covenant with any man until 4004 BC when he
decides that maybe he should make contact with mankind and tell them the
true theological path. It is kind of like an afterthought-- as if God said,
"Oh, what are those funny creatures walking on two sticks and yabbering like
crows? Maybe I should speak with them." Of course it matters not that
nearly 10 billion people were left without any communication with God--not
even a communication they could reject. God didn't care enough to
communicate with them in any fashion--he left them to their own devices.
What a loving God!
I must correct something I wrote a few weeks back about how many people had
ever lived on earth. I think I had written that there were 6 trillion. I
mis-read some numbers and was way the heck wrong. There have been 105
Billion people alive since 50,000 years BC. That is where I got the 10
billion people cited above. God would have left to their own devices in
Dick's scenario.
>I have read Dick's excellent book. He gets it right. The Bible is Hebrew
>history.
Jim, you don't know how happy I am for you and Dick that people like you
are supporting his views rather than mine.
glenn
see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
for lots of creation/evolution information
anthropology/geology/paleontology/theology\
personal stories of struggle
>
>Jim
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