From: george murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Tue Oct 28 2003 - 11:50:26 EST
John W Burgeson wrote:
> >>When is perpetrating
> falsehoods to secure the ends not malice? >>
>
> That set of arguments has led the atheists (and some Christians) on
> Compuserve's RELIGION FORUM to coin the term "Liars for Jesus" to
> describe ICR and AIG.
>
> I agrgu against that phrase from time to time, but I see their POV only
> too clearly.
It occurred to me, since we just finished 4 Sundays with 1st Lessons from
Job, that there is an interesting parallel between Job's "friends" and YEC
apologetes. There's nothing in the book to suggest that they are
deliberately saying things they know to be false. You can find some
support in scripture for their theology of rewards and punishments (good
people prosper & bad people suffer) but they distort the truth in order to
force everything into the pre-conceived mold of that theology. In that
sense they might be called "liars for YHWH." & at the end God says to them
- twice - "You have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has."
Shalom,
George
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