Glenn wrote,
<<Concluding what you do [the guideline is: If a belief preexists in the culture of the people of God but modern science falsifies it, yet it shows up in Scripture, it is a divine accommodation.] Idoes not logically follow from your assumption. there is an alternative and until you rule it out, you don't have a tightly bound chain of reasoning.
How do you rule out the alternative possibility that the Bible is simply false? Or do you just assume that it is true and work from there?>>
I think the logical failure is yours, not mine. There is no necessary logical connection between the premise, the science in the Bible which God accommodated rather than revealed is false, and the conclusion therefore the theology revealed is false.
Paul
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Received on Thu Jun 15 11:15:38 2006
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