Re: [asa] Mark 10:6 -- "beginning of creation"

Apropos the comment below about Gen.1:27 and monogamy, the following occurred to me recently without any connection with spurious YEC arguments.

Even if we bypass the question of whether Gen.1:27ff is speaking of just a single male-female couple or of humanity in general (I think the latter the most likely), this passage says nothing about monogamy. In fact, the command in v.28 to "be fruitful and multiply" may be better satisfied by polygamy. & of course polygamy in various forms was widely practiced in the patriarchal period & early Israel. OTOH, Gen.2:18-25 in the 2d creation account does pretty clearly envision monogamy - & here nothing corresponding to "be fruitful and multiply" is said. The contrast is interesting, especially in view of the fact that the 2d account is usually thought to be 400-500 years earlier than the 1st.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Robert Schneider
  To: Michael Roberts ; David Opderbeck ; asa@calvin.edu
  Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 8:39 AM
  Subject: Re: [asa] Mark 10:6 -- "beginning of creation"

  I agree with Michael. The common hermeneutic of YECs is eisegesis, not exegesis. They commonly read into a verse what they want to find there instead of reading out of a verse what is there.

  If you read the comment by Hugh Anderson in the New Century Bible Commentary on Mark 10:6-9 (p. 242-243), he makes it clear that this whole passage is about marriage and divorce. Jesus' "appeal is how things may be from the human point of view with respect to the Law [regarding divorce] to how things are in the order of God's creation." Anderson also refers to the Damascus Document of the Qumran community which uses Gen. 1:27 to argue for monogamy (over against polygamy).

  As Michael stated, Mark 10:6ff has absolutely nothing to say about the "creation week.". It is sad to see this kind of YEC interpretation that defies reason and logic, ignores context, and twists the meaning of the passage to serve an ideological end. This issue is on my mind right now because I am reading Henry Morris on Scripture; it's a real test of my equinimity.

  Bob
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Michael Roberts
    To: David Opderbeck ; asa@calvin.edu
    Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 2:33 AM
    Subject: Re: [asa] Mark 10:6 -- "beginning of creation"

    It is difficult to even write a good article on this exegesis of Mk 10.6 as the verse says nothing about the creation week hence there is nothing to say!

    It is simply misuse of scripture .

    End of argument

    Michael
      ----- Original Message -----
      From: David Opderbeck
      To: asa@calvin.edu
      Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 2:10 AM
      Subject: [asa] Mark 10:6 -- "beginning of creation"

      Does anyone know of a good article / source that discusses the exegesis of Mark 10:6, to reply to the YEC claim that Jesus must be affirming a one-week creation?

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      David W. Opderbeck
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Received on Fri Jan 19 09:53:55 2007