From: PASAlist@aol.com
Date: Wed May 21 2003 - 13:40:58 EDT
JIm writes,
> I like to respect people's experience. But your experience
> would be vastly different if you were born in a different
> culture. How do you explain that?
Culture is not ultimate. I can show you people from all over the world, from
every different culture who have met Jesus. They testify to the same thing I
do: the new personal relationship with God transcends their cultural religious
experience.
> Major premise: The Bible/church says God doesn't lie, God is truth, etc.
> Minor premise: Genesis misrepresents reality to humans (a lie if God were
> real).
> Conclusion: Therefore, Genesis is merely human work.
You have the rough materials here for a logical syllagism. But, this
reasoning is still not logically sound. You have a term in the conclusion, "merely
human work," that you do not have in either of the premises. Consequently, the
conclusion is logically invalid, illogical, irrational. Try again.
Paul
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