RE: [asa] Slug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu
> [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On Behalf Of Carol or

> Glenn asked: " I raised the question
> of the Great Green Slug religion and
> asked if a believef in the great green slug who learned science could
> proclaim his story metaphorical and thus
> have it still teach true theology. "
>
> Of course he could. Whether it did so or not is another question.

So please provide the criterion you would use to tell that the sluggist
religion isn't true theology and Christian theology is--objective criterion
please.

BTW, Michael Roberts, here is another person is capable of answering this
question which you find meaningless. Strange how they find meaning where
you can't. And I would add, they are being logical about it.

>
> You are looking for "history" in a place most people don't
> think you can find it. Much like looking for history in the
> play "Hamlet." Or maybe a better example in Shakespeare's
> "Julius Caesar." There might be some in the latter, but the
> writing is a play, not history. The goal of the playwright is
> to entertain, not teach as a history professor might do.

Well, Hamlet and Julius Caesar don't have pretensions to be God's Word. I
agree with you that most people don't think there is history there, but the
implications of God being incapable of communicating or not knowing what
happened at creation seem profound to me. Apparently most people don't seem
to mind that so little of the Biblical story is based on fact.

I thought of how accommodationalism would be applied in the science lab. The
scientist says: "I know that this theory is factually false, but it is so
deeply meaningful that I simply must believe it."

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Received on Wed Jun 14 19:32:58 2006