> I don't see anything wrong with "mingling things divine with things human"
> if God is to be Lord of all of our lives. I do not think that we have to
> put knowledge of God and His actions or the contents of the Bible into
> some theological "upper story" or "spiritual" plane of existence that
> cannot interact in the "real" or physical world.
>
Good. We are getting closer to the root of the difficulty. The "mingling"
quote is from Francis Bacon, c. 1620. "Upper story" is Schaeffer's terminology.
It refers to a total dualism. What some, such as Bube, Van Till, and others are
trying to do is describe a 'complementary' view of the relationship between
nature and Scripture. Bube's recent book, "Putting it All Together" does an
excellent job of saying what is NOT meant by complementarity. I won't attempt
here to garble what he says, but simply recommend that everyone read this book.
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