On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, burgytwo@juno.com wrote:
> 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 tend to give the term 'literally' a meaning that is not literal. Even
the so-called literalists do not take everything in the Bible literally.
The passage referred to above that Jesus quotes is Gen. 2:24 that speaks
of two becoming one flesh. Does AiG take one flesh literally?
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
Received on Sun Apr 23 20:28:53 2006
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