RE: [asa] A parable of three investors

10-30-06
To Don Nield:

> My question to Glenn is the following. If God inspired the
> writings to
> tell us something of a concrete nature, why is it not set in
> more solid
> concrete?

It is as I have already posted. God has a problem. He has to pick a time to
reveal himself to humanity. Whenever that is, humanity will not understand
the full truth of science. But if he is to tell us how he created, which is
what that account actually looks like (claims that it was only to convey the
merest statement that he created notwithstanding), then he has to tell a
simplifed story which can be understood at all time, and which can be read
and viewed as true throughout time. That is not an easy task.

Thus, we have several facets of the communication. Gods intent -> the human
writer's understanding of that intent -> what the human writer writes -> the
original reader's understanding of what was written,-> and our understanding
of what was written.

 If God did inspire the Bible, then HIS intent, is important, not the intent
of the original human writer. Of course, if God just let Joe Blow write
whatever sounded poetic without any form of divine guidance, why do we
bother with any of this? Under that circumstance, the communication trail
looks like:

the human writer's intent -> what the human writer writes -> the original
reader's understanding of what was written,-> and our understanding of what
was written.

Such a chain is no different than that of a best selling novel! And this is
why I don't think the human writer's intent is all that important.

To claim that God can't tell us anything about reality casts serious doubt
upon the claim that he CAN tell us something true about theological reality.
IMO. A god incapable or impotent to tell me something true about reality is
equally impotent at telling me something true about theology. The only
difference is, that with theology I have no means to check the truth value
of the theological statements. With physical reality, I do. Thus, the only
way to get any assurance of the truth of the theological message is to test
the physical message. Fideism isn't a path towards true theological
knowledge; it is a path towards self-deception.

glenn
They're Here: The Pathway Papers
Foundation, Fall, and Flood
Adam, Apes and Anthropology

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Received on Tue Oct 31 03:30:14 2006