RE: Calvin, Accomodation, and the Trinity

Hi Rich, you wrote:
 
>>I commend to you Calvin's caution found in his commentary on Genesis
1:1 about having Scripture saying more than it does.<<
 
Please, quote somebody who lived within the last four hundred years!
What is Calvin's opinion about biological evolution, or Big Bang
cosmology, or the theory of relativity?
 
Both the Accadian and Sumerian pantheons of gods in the earliest
beginning started with only three. Calvin would have no way of knowing
this. In essence, theologically, we have come full circle. Even the
Trinity we believe in today has similarities with the original Accadian
triad: Anu (ilu), Ea, and Enlil. And Jews are connected both
biologically and theologically.
 
The theological schools of Nippur and Eridu tried earnestly to figure
out the vagaries of life and death and the life hereafter. Tammuz
(Sumerian Dumuzi) was the first god to whom they looked for the
possibility of resurrection. He was associated with the constellation
Orion.
 
When the Egyptians sought to translate their dead king to the after life
they looked also to Orion. Some theological ideas never die.
 
Dick Fischer
Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
www.genesisproclaimed.org <http://www.genesisproclaimed.org/>
 
Received on Fri Jun 9 15:01:07 2006