Re: Biblical Interpretation Reconsidered

I concur with most of what has been said in regard to what Jack Haas posted;
I'll just mention 2 points.

1) Somehow we must get people to see how vacuous is the argument "Jesus (or
Paul) referred to this Old Testament event like one would refer to factual
history, therefore it *must* be factual history."
My usual attempt to do that is by noting that if my Pastor says in a sermon
"We should love our neighbor like the Good Samaritan did" that does *not* mean
he believes the Good Samaritan to have been an actual historical person. It
seems like it should be logical to extend that reasoning to, for example, Jesus
mentioning Jonah (or, perhaps with more theological difficulty, Paul
mentioning Adam). But bad hermeneutical habits are hard to break.

2) The quoted message ended with "Remember John 1:1-3." In context, it
*sounds* like this guy is equating the Bible with the "Word" in
John's Gospel. If
that is the case and he is making the Bible equal to God, then it is rank
idolatry and this guy has much worse problems than any YEC views.

Allan the archive-lurker

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