Re: on Eastern Orthodoxy and science

In a message dated 4/7/2006 1:41:58 PM Eastern Standard Time,
dickfischer@verizon.net writes:
No issue such as Original Sin or Imago Dei can be reasoned out theologically
unless the necessary first step is taken to reconcile the biological origins
of mankind in Africa a few million years ago with the origins of the Jews
commencing in Southern Mesopotamia about 7,000 years ago articulated in Genesis.
One is entirely biological, the other is entirely historical.
Read Finkelstein's The Bible Unearthed, Archeology's new vision of ancient
Israel and the origin of its Sacred Texts.

Please.

One of the conclusions Finkelstein comes to - much of the history is
embellished - to firmly establish the theology.

The amazing thing about the book is that once you know the milieu of the late
bronze age, early iron age, you see the reasons why the theology developed
the way it did.

Then continue your thread.

The biological origins of man in Africa have NOTHING to do with original sin
or Adam and Eve.

Genesis is pure theology. And the theology conforms to sociobiological law.

The Deuteronomistic history also seems to be primarily theology.

rich faussette
Received on Fri Apr 7 17:33:27 2006