From: RFaussette@aol.com
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 12:47:04 EDT
In a message dated 4/29/03 11:37:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
burgythree@hotmail.com writes:
> But let's consider, instead of my mentally challenged friends, the very
> intelligent people who hold forth at ICR. From our perspective, we see them
> as inaccurate (theologically) when they insist a literal reading of Genesis
>
We all have to face this at one time or another. Some here say Scripture is
to be understood personally (theological anarchy/relativism), some say it
must be read literally, others like me want to know the conditions of
production and the mentality of the people who wrote the Scriptures and the
consequences for people who align their behavior with scriptural truths.
If I can't tie my shoes but I understand enough of the Ten Commandments and
the Greatest Commandment to inuit godly behavior (behavior that stabilizes my
family/protects my health, the health of my society/ensures biological
continuity of me and my affinals, etc.) then the Scriptures are literally
true, whether the truth is in an allegory or a parable or walked on two feet,
whether heaven is 2 dimension or 3 dimensional. I'm looking for practical
benefits and I see them.
Ken Ham's literal reading of Scripture will place him in an intellectual
backwater, but even if he couldn't tie his shoes, a literal reading of
Scripture will guide him to the kingdom of God (and ensure behavior that
stabilizes his family/protects his health, the health of his society/ensures
biological continuity of him and his affinals, etc.).
My issue and the one that brought me here, is Kevin macdonald's trilogy on
Judaism which says Scripture does all those things, and he's demonstrated it
scientifically. Why is that important? Because the radical left (Jim?)
continues to try and separate us from the religion that would sustain us and
yet scientifically, it has been proven that the Jews are more intelligent,
more cohesive, more materially successful than any other people, and in fact
their orhtodox communities are the most intelligent (stats commonly known)
and the most powerful (those communities in palestinian territory) in the
world and they work those Levitical prohibitions to the bone, so my position
is opposed to Ken Ham's but for the same reason. I embrace science, have seen
why Scripture is sound scientifically, so want people to look at the science
in Scripture so they don't abandon Scriupture the way the media is
encouraging them to. Ken Ham is afraid that embracing the science will
eventually cause the abandonment of the Scriptural morality, but the examples
I've given of the advantages that accrue from observing the levitical
prohibitions demonstrate that the advantages to be accrued by observing the
Law (which was fulfilled by Jesus and not abandoned by him), are never
overlooked.
rich
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