From: Jan de Koning (jan@dekoning.ca)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 16:38:43 EDT
At 11:31 AM 03/06/2003 -0500, Debbie Mann wrote:
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>From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
>Behalf Of Jan de Koning
>Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 9:59 AM
>To: asa@calvin.edu
>Subject: Re: Grounds for disbelief
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>At 06:04 PM 02/06/2003 -0400, RFaussette@aol.com wrote:
>
>By Aviva Lori
>
>Archaeologist Israel Finkelstein and his colleagues are stirring controversy
>with contentions that many biblical stories never happened, but were written
>by what he calls `a creative copywriter' to advance an ideological agenda.
This is not what I am saying, since here the word "happened" is used in a
modern sense. Each story in the Bible must be read as God's Word at a
certain time, that is God speaking to a people in a way that people
understood at that time. So I completely reject the words "a creative
copywriter", though I do admit that copying by later persons may have
caused errors, but not to the extent that the sense of the story is
completely different. I am not going to study the link you gave, since I
have not got the time.
Jan de Koning
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