RE: Reading Genesis literally

See, even a blind squirrel finds a nut on occasion.
 
Now if they went on to say it was the literal history of the Jews, but
then am I expecting too much from what is only a propaganda mill after
all?
 
While I'm on the subject, GPA will be doing a series of 30 minute TV
shows for a local public access channel in Fairfax, Virginia on
"Historical Genesis." When completed, we'll offer the series as Sunday
school lessons for download off of our web site.
 
The first episode will be Genesis One and the Big Bang. The format will
be lecture interspersed with PowerPoint slides. If any of you guys have
some graphics on the Big Bang or early planet earth, and can email them
to me in JPEG format, I would be grateful. Or if you know some good web
sites that have pictures, that's okay too.
 
Dick Fischer
Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
www.genesisproclaimed.org <http://www.genesisproclaimed.org/>
 
From AIG this week:
 
Q: AiG teaches that we must take Genesis as written, but should we take
the whole Bible literally?
 
A: We've got to be very careful here. It's true, for example, that Jesus
quoted from Genesis when he talked about the foundation of marriage.
Thus, he took Genesis literally. Paul quoted from Genesis when writing
about the first man and the Last Adam, so he accepted Genesis literally,
too.
 
We can accept a literal Genesis because it was written as typical Jewish
"historical narrative." But there are other passages that aren't meant
to be taken literally, such as those in the book of Psalms. We know the
psalms are poetic songs.
 
So we should take the Bible the way it was meant to be taken. Some of
the literature was obviously written to express things symbolically and
the Bible explains this to the reader. For instance, when Jesus spoke in
parables, He told us they were stories and He explained their meaning.
You really can't go wrong if you take any part of the Bible in a
straightforward or "natural" way (i.e., according to the way it was
written). Because Genesis was written as literal history, we take it as
literal history.
 
JB
 
 
Received on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:26:04 -0400