RE: [asa] A parable of three investors

Wayne wrote:

I see your idea of a day of proclamation is there in your writing.
However
I also see that the document also has the sun "created" on the forth day as
a polemic against the religions of the time and their sun gods. (Isn't that
also what some people here are saying).
It also drives home the point that _everything was created_ by God.
I think there are many themes that it brings forth, and we, perhaps because
we are scientists, seem overly preoccupied with ONE way of looking at the
book.

Should we expect God to only care about satisfying a few recalcitrant
scientific blokes in the 21st century? These ancient writings have spoken
through the ages, and, if we listen, it can speak to us. Good poetry is
compact, timeless, deep and multidimensional (or multilayered) like this.

The "poetry"
is huge enough that we can accommodate the facts we have on the history of
the earth into it. Yet if we ram a forced interpretation of scripture into
the facts about the history of the earth, we see the trouble the YEC folk
have caused. That's not you (or Dick for that matter), but I think there is
room for many interpretations of what is in the scripture because the
chances are, it was never intended to have only one meaning and one intended
purpose.

Don comments:

I like this take on interpretation. I myself am a firm believer that there
is more than one message in a verse. Not all interpretations are correct,
but I believe there is more than one. There are messages in the bible not
just a message. And the fact that the bible must apply to people of all
times it is therefore even more essential that it be somewhat poetic, but I
also believe that the historicity is there in all parts of the bible.
Embellishments, poetry, and such are even normal in this day and age when
telling a story. "We had one yard to go and two seconds on the clock when I
scored the winning touchdown." Actually it was 21 yards and 32 seconds but
what the hey it makes it sound better. The fact still remains that I scored
the winning touchdown.

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Received on Sun Nov 5 11:11:25 2006