Bill wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Payne [mailto:bpayne15@juno.com]
>Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 4:04 PM
>If we pull a thread out from one end of the Bible, the whole thing tends
>to unravel if we are consistent, which, I think, is why Glenn doesn't
>like the results of his research. He seems to be caught in a bit of a
>scissor, between his integrity on the one hand and his desire to be
>consistent on the other.
>
Bill, you misunderstand me. It is not I who was advocating using the
methodology of placing Biblical stories in their cultural perspective. I am
opposed to that. By use of the resurrection stories of other religions, I
was showing that if one insists upon placing the Flood stories in a cultural
perspective, one could do the same for the resurrection itself. If one does
that, it makes the resurrection untrue which of course, as you note,
unravels christianity.
The thing that made me unhappy is that I don't like the implications of
learning of an Egyptian religion with many similarities to Christianity,
including a communion service. I don't feel I am caught in any scissor. I
was trying to illustrate that others might be though.
glenn
see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
for lots of creation/evolution information
anthropology/geology/paleontology/theology\
personal stories of struggle
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