From: Dr. Blake Nelson (bnelson301@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Oct 06 2003 - 10:54:34 EDT
--- Walter Hicks <wallyshoes@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> Josh Bembenek wrote:
>
> > >At the moment I am choosing not to participate in
> the argumentation
> > >concerning specific cataclysmic interpretations
> of empirical data, but I
> > >would be interested to hear your testimony
> concerning why holding to a YEC
> > >position is so important to you. What is at stake
> here? If the professional
> > >science community turns out to be correct on
> matters of chronology, what
> > >would be the loss to the Christian faith as you
> understand it?
> >
> > Howard, from what I've come to understand the
> primary importance is being
> > able to claim that mankind is fallen and that has
> been inherited from Adam
> > and Eve. In this view, The Fall requires some
> kind of mechanistic transfer
> > into all of humankind from Adam, otherwise we had
> no fall. This is
> > partially bolstered by the idea that God looked at
> His creation and called
> > it "good." Would the creation of hominids that
> die, have disease, etc. and
> > are inherently fallen creatures be "good?"
>
> It would easier to conceptualize God if we could be
> assured that God is bound by
> the same laws of causality that we are. But
> certainly we know that he isn't.
> Nevertheless, we talk as though God is bound by
> causality. To say that death
> came _because_ of the fall is not the same as saying
> that death happened _after_
> (time wise) the fall. God does not have follow the
> same rules of causality that
> we do.
>
> IMO
>
> Walt
Indeed, He would appear not to. As I have pointed out
before, the Hebrews apparently had a different concept
of causality than we do (I am sure someone knows a lot
more about this than me), one that from our standpoint
can work in "reverse." One only needs to look at John
the Baptist's ministry.
Our "forward" view of causality would say that John
the Baptist's ministry caused the coming of the
Messiah, but the text is very clear that because the
Messiah was coming, in the future, John the Baptist
preached. The future event, causes the event that
occurs earlier in time. Hence, "reverse" causality.
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