Re: BIBLE/ORIGINS: seeking feedback

From: Rich Blinne (rblinne@frii.com)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 19:59:51 EST

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    On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:42:43 -0000, "Michael Roberts"
    <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk> said:

    > We need to get away from the myth that Inerrancy =YEC. It is not a
    > necessary consequence.
    >
    > Michael

    The following is from a USENET post I made in April 1989(!) that became
    the basis for the inerrancy FAQ of soc.religion.christian:

    [N.B. Be careful what you say on the Internet it can last a long time!
          You can still find this at
          http://geneva.rutgers.edu/src/others/inerrancy.txt.]

    >WHAT ABOUT GENESIS

    >Here is an interesting turn of events. Most inerrantists who are
    >specialists in the field (and particularly OT scholars) do not hold to
    >the "literal" six-day creation. An example of this thought is Gleason
    >Archer. It seems that inerrantists and six-day creationists are thought
    >to be one and the same, but from what I can tell six-day creationists
    >are only a small subset of inerrantists.



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