Re: [asa] Re: Are there guidelines for accommodational interpretation?

I have not heard even the accomodationalists claim that
the geneologies that count back to Adam, or Paul's
statement that sin entered the world through one man, is
poetry.

And that is exactly the problem that was the original
question of this thread. Non-poetic language is being
explained through accomodation because what it says
conflicts with scientific evidence.

I thought Paul's latest thread was interesting because he
made some good points I thought about giving some
guidelines that would allow the accomodationalist
interpretation to be falsified, that is if there was
evidence that the writer in question did not have the
beliefs that is being attributed to them by the
accomodationalist.

But, like Glenn, I found his summary statement to be
circular. It sounds like nothing more than the
presuppostional apologetics statement that the only truth
comes from the Bible. In other words if it is in the
Bible, and it doesnt square with the facts, but it was the
belief of the day, then the accomodation must be the only
interpretation. I agree with Glenn that this is faulty
reasoning, there are other possibilities, one of which is
that the Bible is just wrong.

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:11:05 -0700
  "D. F. Siemens, Jr." <dfsiemensjr@juno.com> wrote:
> Of course the Bible is false. It says, "The Lord is my
>shepherd." That
> means that the writer was a sheep. But he has not an
>/Ovis aries/. He was
> a /Homo sapiens/. The statement is clearly a deliberate
>falsehood. So, to
> revise Mark Twain's dictum, there are lies, damned lies,
>and poetry.
> Dave
>
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:11:13 +0800 "Glenn Morton"
> <glennmorton@entouch.net> writes:
> Paul,
>
> Concluding what you do does 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?
>
> So, 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.
>
> Paul

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