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

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  ----- Original Message -----
  From: D. F. Siemens, Jr.
  To: glennmorton@entouch.net
  Cc: PHSeely@msn.com ; asa@calvin.edu ; pleuronaia@gmail.com ; drsyme@cablespeed.com
  Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 6:11 PM
  Subject: Re: [asa] Re: Are there guidelines for accommodational interpretation?

  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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Received on Thu Jun 15 17:58:12 2006