Michael wrote:
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This is why I find this discussion so tedious. It is all maybes and supposition, as well as forcing the Bible to talk about things it deosnt.<<<
GRM: So the way forward is to ignore all that evidence and data that is out there which might prove anything we say wrong? Why do you demand that YECs answer questions when you seem to want to avoid them when the cannon turns your direction?
GRM:By the way I ran across a wonderful Shinto creation story which has the cosmic egg first, heaven and earth were created from that. Then the earth and the sky mated and created the gods. The gods then produced the ocean followed by the islands by the coagulation of the sea water. (the islands of Oki and Sado were archetypes of twin births in humanity --thought you should know that). After that came "mountains, rivers, herbs, and trees." But still there was no sun. Only after all this did two gods mate and voila here came the sun. http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCJAPAN/CREAT1.HTM
So, my friend, if we take the approach you want to and say that the Bible is accommodated to the culture of he day, why can't we do the same with the Shinto creation story? Why can't a Shinto who goes to college (and there are lots of them) and finds out that the story is full of scientific flaws (like islands coagulating from the sea) simply do what you do for the Christian religion and say that all of this is really the true theology but is put in a form which is an accommodation to the Japanese culture of the day?
Are you ever going to answer that question?
I will, it is why we must have this tedious discussion because both creation accounts can't be real at the same time and if they are both false, that has impacts upon the veracity of the rest of the respective religion's worth.
Received on Sun Mar 5 16:42:37 2006