RE: Calvin, Accomodation, and the Trinity

Hi Rich, you wrote:
 
>>You may be right but it is impossible to know that you are right.
 
And likewise when George disagrees. I can't prove it's right and George
can't say it's wrong. Well, he does anyway.
 
I just think it is possible that the roots of Christianity may be longer
and deeper than we have thought. The Jewish religion carries into
Christianity. That we know. But some of the elements of our faith
appear to precede the Jews themselves. Certainly the idea that a god
could die and return to life is deep rooted. Would God allow some
pertinent theological ideas to float around awhile before the real thing
arrived? Might He have sent up some trial balloons before offering his
son? I can think of some reasons to do that. But I can't prove it.
 
Dick Fischer
Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
www.genesisproclaimed.org
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Blinne [mailto:rich.blinne@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 4:32 PM
To: Dick Fischer
Cc: ASA
Subject: 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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> 1:1 about having Scripture saying more than it does.<<
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> 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?
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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
> 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.
 
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. It's just safer in my opinion to find other
verses
in Scripture to defend the Trinity.
Received on Fri Jun 9 23:23:43 2006