> Anyone who had association with Gordon-Conwell Seminary's OT Dept. in the
>last 3 decades learned from Meredith Kline that holding to the historicity
>of Gen 1-11 is essential, but does not demand that Gen 1 be interpreted as
>either sequential or chronological. The recent issue of PSCF has a review
>by Kline of his position, and refers also to his seminal 1950s paper
>"Because It Had Not Rained" which argued for the presence of
>"natural/providential" processes at work within the Gen 1-2 narrative.
I have read this paper and hope others will too. While I'm apparently too
"theologically impaired" to be able to follow everything he says, I will
read it at least once more, look up some definitions, and hope others will
be interested in discussing it.
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