George wrote:
There is no way that scientific study of evolution or of anything else will tell you that Jesus of Nazareth is God Incarnate.
rich:
I agree. You have to know that in your heart, it is a matter of faith and has nothing to do with science, but the rational mechanics in genesis regarding the fall of Adam dovetail perfectly with the suggestion that Jesus was "of God."
I don't see a contradiction with a Darwinian interpretation and we were talking about genesis. That's one of the requirements to a rational, interpretation of Biblical texts. You have to know your context and live within its rules.
The necessity for Jesus' incarnation is foreshadowed in genesis but I think bringing Jesus into a discussion of the fall in genesis is premature. Genesis is a literary piece with an allegorical substrate that was tacked onto the front of the pentateuch, some say during the exile, some as late as maccabeean times.
What is its significance? That is the question right now, not the Incarnation.
If you don't tackle the texts in their provenance, which is to say, make historical statements about them based on history or make anthropological statements about them based on anthropology, you have no hope of coming to a rational holistic understanding of what to most people appear to be pretty fantastic Judeo-Christian beliefs.
rich faussette
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