From: Jim Eisele (jeisele@starpower.net)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 14:38:11 EST
Paul, I give you tons of credit for your intellectual integrity
and hard work. If that could create a heaven, it would get you in.
I'm afraid that you'll have to settle for respect from your fellow
humans who know your work. And, from an ethical standpoint, I
applaud your resistance to the YEC farce (it is much more powerful
coming from a Christian).
<< My "faith" in day-age was based on a deep assumption
that the "God" who created the universe was the same "God" behind
the Bible. >>
>To be a little more accurate, this should read, "My "faith" in day-age was
>based on a deep assumption that the "God" who created the universe was the
>same "God" behind the Bible AND that he would not accommodate the
revelation
>of himself as sovereign creator to the scientific beliefs of the times, but
>only in agreement with scientific truth." It is in fact this latter
>unbiblical assumption, not the former assumption, which was falsified by
the
>facts that Jim found and that led to the unraveling of his faith.
I deeply respect the honesty of this position. I sharply differ with
the logic. I really don't know where to begin. Off the top of my head,
I'd estimate there are dozens of arguments against this position.
For the sake of discussion, the one that comes to the front of my mind
is that an omnipotent, truthful God would not have worded Gen 1 in the
way that it is worded. A Hebrew religious writer? Now that makes sense.
Paul, the text says 6 days. Everybody knows it. This is not accommodation.
It is presentation (made up, uninspired despite it's "theological merit").
I really could go on and on about all of the different ways that a real
god would have inspired the Genesis writer. Your position, though
respectfully honest, is not tenable. It represents "the best that we can
do if we assume the resurrection" happened. Without the resurrection
assumption, Genesis gets discarded as just another myth a long time ago.
I guess that's enough for now.
Jim Eisele
Genesis in Question
http://genesisinquestion.org
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