Re: Calvin, Accomodation, and the Trinity

On 6/9/06, Dick Fischer <dickfischer@verizon.net> wrote:
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> Hi Rich, you wrote:
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> >>I commend to you Calvin's caution found in his commentary on Genesis
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> Please, quote somebody who lived within the last four hundred years! What
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I quoted someone that old in order to deal with the issue of novelty
in that we are only dealing with recently raised issues. I wanted to
show that current day accomodationists are in the mainstream of
Reformed thought and if I wanted to deal with the issues you have
raised I would have quoted them.

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> Both the Accadian and Sumerian pantheons of gods in the earliest beginning
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> 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
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Figuring out the theological views of ancient Jews seems to be just as
speculative as figuring out their scientific views. When
accomodationism and concordism get speculative like this they are both
at their weakest IMHO. You may be right but it is impossible to know
that you are right. It's just safer in my opinion to find other verses
in Scripture to defend the Trinity.
Received on Fri Jun 9 16:33:07 2006