Re: Something must change
Glenn R. Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 21:31:59 -0500
At 02:54 PM 8/17/98 -0400, Howard J. Van Till wrote:
>The bottom line is that this concordism or harmonization simply won't work.
>Examples of failure abound. More to the point, attempts to force a
>harmonization is likely to make the biblical text not more respected or
>more valuable, but less. Even good and pious intentions can be misguided in
>their particular application.
I simply fail to understand how saying that the Scripture is relating a
dubious history should make people want to believe in either it or its
inspriation. I can find lots of books and creation myths that relate
dubious accounts of history, but I don't think they are very special or
very truthful.
glenn
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