Re: [asa] Two questions...

To add to the already excellent comments Doug makes below...

Regarding the alleged lack of TE foundational doctrine, I would say --- what
lack? What's wrong with the Apostle's creed or any other number of
foundational doctrines that have been around for almost 2000 years? If
anything, this challenge should be directed back at YECs to see how they
justify their relatively new "doctrine" of letting Biblical interpretation
regarding the natural order persist in the face of contrary observations. By
doing so, it is they, and not others who may be making nonsense of the doctrine
of inerrancy.

--Merv

Quoting Douglas Hayworth <haythere.doug@gmail.com>:

> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:24 PM, James Patterson
> <james000777@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > I don't think it's the science issues that are the most troublesome, at
> > least for me. It's the lack of foundational doctrines that are, I think,
> > critical to many mainstream Christian churches. That would be concordism,
> > and inerrancy/infallibility of the Word of God.
>
> Actually, I think that concordism and YEC are problematic and faulty
> primarily on a theological, doctrinal and hermeneutical grounds. When
> we actually treat God's Word with the respect it deserves as his
> revelation of his purposes and calling for humankind throughout
> history, it becomes obvious (to me, anyhow) that concordism and YEC
> detract and demean it.
>
> In pre-science days there was no such thing as concordism or
> scientific YEC because there was nothing that had to be made
> concordant. The theological message was what mattered most. In other
> words, the advent of science created a new issue for us to work
> through, but it is the concordists and YECs who went down the wrong
> path by making scripture "say" things that it was never meant to mean.
>
> Doug Hayworth
> Rockford, IL
>
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