Dick Fischer wrote:
>>Sometimes I wonder if Scripture wasn't written just obscure enough so
that
those who can't quite grasp it can still get a free pass through the
pearly
gates if they claim they didn't become Christians because they couldn't
get
passed Genesis.
I think the question has been answered, but you don't believe it. In
plain
English, I believe a proper translation would be: "Let us appoint a man
we
will call 'Adam' who can represent us to the rest of humanity.">>
Sorry Dick. That went over my head.
I wrote earlier:
>To me, Glenn's arguments appear both reasonable and more likely, while
>Dick's position appears "ad hoc."
and Dick replied:
>>Genesis says the garden of Eden was "eastward," that is, east of where
they
were rummaging in the desert after leaving Egypt, or perhaps east of the
"promised land." So do I. Glenn places it westward. Genesis places the
garden of Eden near the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates. So do I.
Glenn places it in the Mediterranean basin. Genesis says Adam was
created
out of the dust. So do I. Glenn says Adam had natural parents who were
apes. Genesis says there were ten patriarchs from Noah to Abraham. So
do
I. Glenn says there were hundreds or even thousands of unnamed,
intermediate descendants.
So whose position appears "reasonable and more likely," and whose
position
appears "ad hoc"?>>
Glenn's still appears more likely (to me). Understand that I
do not look for the scriptural correspondences that occupy so much of
both your arguments and Glenn's. Glenn simply points out (correctly,
IMHO) that there were beings on this earth 2-4 MY ago which, by almost
any reasonable standard we can think about, were as much "imago dei" as
we are today. If I understand you correctly, and I may not, you dispute
this finding.
It is only that issue I address, not any particular scriptural
correspondence. Those are (sometimes) interesting also, but not to the
point here.
I apologize if I misrepresent your position of course.
Burgy
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