Re: [asa] Question on inerrancy

Third, he thinks he is free to interpret terms in the original language
in order to fit contemporary knowledge.
Dave (ASA)

On Thu, 15 May 2008 14:37:40 +1200 Don Nield <d.nield@auckland.ac.nz>
writes:
> I for one do wish to argue with E J Young. He makes two unfounded
> assumptions. First, he assumes that there are only two literary
> categories for Genesis, namely poetry or history. Secondly, he
> assumes
> that the Bible is indivisible and that one cannot interpret Genesis
>
> separately from a consideration of Christ and the Gospels.
> Don
>
>
> Dick Fischer wrote:
> >
> > If you prefer Genesis as poetry, argue with E J Young: "To escape
> from
> > the plain factual statements of Genesis some Evangelicals are
> saying
> > that the early chapters of Genesis are poetry or myth, by which
> they
> > mean that they are not to be taken as straightforward accounts,
> and that
> > the acceptance of such a view removes the difficulties. Some are
> > prepared to say that difficulties about the resurrection of Christ
> are
> > removed at once if you say that the writers of the Gospels do not
> mean
> > us to understand that a miracle occurred, and that they are
> simply
> > giving us a poetic account to show that Christ lives on. To adopt
> such
> > a view, they say, removes all troubles with modern science. But
> the
> > truth is that, if you accept such beliefs and methods, you are
> > abandoning the Christian faith. If you act thus with Genesis you
> are
> > not facing up to the facts, and that is a cowardly thing for
> > Evangelicals to do. Genesis is not poetry. There are poetical
> accounts
> > of creation in the Bible--Psalm 104, and certain chapters of
> Job--and
> > they differ completely from the first chapters of Genesis.
> Hebrew
> > poetry had certain characteristics, and they are not found in the
> first
> > chapter of Genesis. So the claim that Genesis one is poetry is
> no
> > solution to the question."
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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