Re: Reading Genesis literally

Karl's last sentence below refers (I think) to what has traditionally been called the sensus plenior of a text. There can be such a "fuller sense" of a text even from a merely human author. (Dorothy Sayers gives a good example from her own work in The Mind of the Maker.) & if we believe that the Holy Spirit is involved in a distinctive the development of biblical texts then we shouldn't be too surprised if there is sometimes more in them than their human authors intended.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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   It's important to keep in mind that what the Church (including Augustine) has traditionally meant by "literal" is the meaning that the original authors intended. This is very different from what American evangelicals (both YEC and non-YEC) mean by the term. Note also that the full meaning of Scripture can and does exceed the "literal meaning".
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Received on Mon Apr 24 16:46:29 2006