>-----Original Message-----
>From: Howard J. Van Till [mailto:hvantill@novagate.com]
>Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 8:20 PM
>To: Glenn Morton
>Cc: asa@calvin.edu
>Subject: Re: Where is man?
>
>
>Glenn,
>
>>>Why am I not surprised to see your reply?
>>
>> And what is this comment about? Should a person sit idly by while others
>> critize his ideas? I won't. Maybe you will, but then I see
>that you didn't
>> sit still for the same treatment because you replied when I
>criticized your
>> position. Should I make the same comment about you?
>
>Relax, Glenn. That was merely a light-hearted rhetorical question. Have we
>come to the sad point where the ;) sign must be included at every such
>occasion?
I apologize. I was wrong. please forgive me.
I do think this unfortunate episode does illustrate Burgy's excellent point
a few years ago that one can't tell irony when looking at words. Little
marks make the intent clear.
>At one point you concluded:
>
>> The problem is in the nature of inspiration.
>
>Right on, Glenn. That is precisely the issue. You and I operate with
>substantially different concepts of divine inspiration and, consequently,
>what constitute appropriate expectations and uses of the biblical text.
Agreed. That is the real underlying difference. What is inspiration and how
effectual is it. If it doesn't do anything substantial, like change the
sentence the Biblical writer, left on his own intended to write, then it
isn't worth a whole lot to me. In fact it becomes like the vital force of
early biology. It is there, but one can't possibly know if it is there. Yet
we believe in a God who substantially intervened in history and actually
changed the course of history, but he can't change the sentence that a
primitive man might write on a sheepskin. There is a disconnect here.
glenn
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