Re: Golden Age (was Re: [asa] Humanity and the Fall: Questions and a Survey)

Quick reply - my last for a few days.

Yes, certainly one has to give up some traditional beliefs - for starters, a
literal 6 day creation, which no one here is defending. But I see no need
to abandon any of the central Christian claims contained in the ecumenical
creeds. (& by that I don't mean to reduce the content of Christianity to
what's stated explicitly in those creeds.)

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Opderbeck" <dopderbeck@gmail.com>
To: "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: Golden Age (was Re: [asa] Humanity and the Fall: Questions and
a Survey)

> George said: You can move a bit & give serious consideration to
> accomodation & an incarnational understanding of scripture, try to
> face scientific realities seriously - & then you come to a point where
> it goes "sproing" & you're back at the same old same old. New
> wine has to go in new wineskins.
>
> I respond: you are right, and it's refreshing to hear this. Doesn't
> anyone who wants to really accept the findings of the natural sciences
> have to give up being a traditional evangelical Christian? Isn't all
> the rhetoric about the complementarity of faith and science only true
> if one gives up many traditional Christian beliefs?
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