Re: Genesis Truth

GRMorton@aol.com
Fri, 30 Jun 1995 19:30:10 -0400

Jim Bell wrote:
"You have statistics to back this up? Would you really like to survey all the

OT scholars in all the evangelical seminaries and see if this assertion holds

up? <

No, I don't. It is just my personal count. Anecdotal data.

I wrote:
<<The second thing that I think you are missing is that regardless of the
culture, somethings ARE an either/or situation. >>

Jim Repiled.

>Either you are missing the point or are choosing not to understand it. ;-)<

I really just don't see it. Apparently my suggestion that you are viewing
Genesis 1 as a true, historical account set in poetry, like the song Edmund
Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot is wrong. Maybe I am slow-witted, so please
patiently show me by an example. How would a non-either/or person interpret
the three sentences :

My mother is alive.

My father is dead.

I said to my son, 'Let there be A's in school.'?
I will tell you nothing about the truth or falsity of either statement.
Ruling out a Schrodinger's cat type of response (since that was not
available til this century) how would a non either/or person understand such
a statement???

glenn