Re: [asa] AIG -- Scientists! Give it up!

Iain,

You will find my comments appended in blue.

Vernon
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Iain Strachan
  To: Vernon Jenkins
  Cc: ASA
  Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 2:38 PM
  Subject: Re: [asa] AIG -- Scientists! Give it up!

    --- Vernon Jenkins <vernon.jenkins@virgin.net > wrote:

>
> Dick, I take it that you subscribe to these statements. But if we question
> His words, how are we to know what God intends to communicate to us? It seems
> to me that he (Keith) advocates a 'free-for-all' - a 'build-your-own' gospel
> from the biblical fragments one is prepared to believe! Is there really no
> such thing as an objective reading of scripture? When the Lord speaks - as in
> his 'Sermon on the Mount' - have we the audacity to question what he says? -
> to translate it into words we would prefer to hear? What kind of Christianity
> is this?!

  Indeed. And what kind of Christianity is this when you see fit to change "You cannot serve God and Money" (NIV) to "You cannot serve the Bible and evolution" (V. Jenkins version)?

  Why should you limit what is clearly a sound _general principle_ to the one example the Lord provides? And have you not considered that the Greek word - rendered 'mammon' in the AV - means more than simply 'money'. Indeed, from Strong's Lexicon we find this word (its reference number, 3126) means 'what is trusted in'...' where it is personified and opposed to God'.

  http://www.blueletterbible.org/tmp_dir/strongs/1154209042-4434.html

  You are the one who is guilty of building your own gospel to suit your own purposes & twisting Scripture in the process.

  Iain

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Received on Sat Jul 29 17:39:55 2006