Re: Dust and vanity

Glenn Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Wed, 31 Dec 1997 17:09:43 -0600

At 03:40 PM 12/31/97 -0500, jim bell wrote:
>
>Message text written by Glenn Morton
>
><<Thank you Jim, It is nice to have you back.>>
>
>I never really left, but I've been so busy I haven't been able to be
>active. I'm afraid I'll have to be terse here, too (imagine that, and me a
>lawyer).

Gee, this must mean that there is a whole lot of law-breaking you need to
overcome out there in California. I knew you all were criminal. :-)

>
><<I have always viewed Genesis
>1:24 as indicating secondary causation in the creation of the critters.
>The
>land did the bringing forth at God's command. In a sense, God let the land
>do it and He didn't get his hands dirty.>>
>
>I'm still confused. Where is the indication of "secondary causation"? And
>what exactly does that mean here?

The LAND did the producing of life. That is what Scripture says.

glenn

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Foundation, Fall and Flood
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