Thanks Bob,
I ("Wally") get blamed for enough already :-)..
Wally
RDehaan237@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 12/31/01 3:57:30 PM, glenn.morton@btinternet.com writes:
>
> << Glenn -- I think it was Wally, not I, who made those points. The idea
>
> >that Adam, as characterized in early Genesis, is a literal person, does
>
> >not seem very likely to me -- probably because of my faith background.
>
> >Arguments that he was a literal human always seem to me to be missing the
>
> >place of the Genesis accounts, as well as not really very important. One
>
> >needs to be much more a literalist than I to even take such arguments
>
> >seriously, let alone ascribe to them any credibility.
>
> > >>
>
> ASAers,
>
> Let me settle the question of who asked that Dick Fischer be given a hearing.
> I did.
>
> On Dec. 27, 2001 under the subject line of "Re: Exegesis or Eisegesis?" I
> wrote << All Dick is asking, as I understand him, is for his historical and
> anthropological research to be addressed in its own right. I agree with him.
> His two articles are available on the website given above. Why doesn't
> someone evaluate them in terms of the data and conclusions he presents rather
> than whether his research agrees with one's favored theological theories?
> >>
>
> Bob
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