Re: [TruthTalk] Fw: Rikk Watts on Genesis 1

Fri, 06 May 2005 04:35:41 -0700

There is room at the Lord's table for all of us, isn't there?

There is plenty of room, it is just a question of proper attire.

MT 22 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen.


Caroline Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We both are intellectually honest and sincere in our pursuit of the faith. We each go by the light of our understanding. We stand in the company of hundreds who believe and practice just as we do. There is room at the Lord's table for all of us, isn't there?
 
Love,
 
Caroline
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Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 8:15 AM
Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] Fw: Rikk Watts on Genesis 1

I disagree rationally.  Izzy

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Caroline Wong
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 7:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Fw: Rikk Watts on Genesis 1

 

Indeed you would be if you disagreed rationally with what I wrote. If you disagreed emotionally, then it's another matter altogether.

 

Love,

 

Caroline 

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Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:46 PM

Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] Fw: Rikk Watts on Genesis 1

 

Caroline, I can�t really agree with most of what you have said.  So maybe I�m just being intellectually honest with you? Izzy

 

 

I thought, surely Izzy jests! which is why I replied in kind. Watts is not saying the bible isn't true or looking for reasons to not take it literally. Believing the bible is literal is the simplest approach and Occam's razor favours the simplest approach. The only reason theologians abandon it is because they could not be intellectually honest and take it literally or pretend that things like language, culture, myth etc. does not matter.

 

That's why I say it was merely intelligence. We know Proverbs is a collection of wise sayings but not literal promises we get to hold God to. We know Psalms is Israel's songbook and it contains some pretty raw things said against their enemies and that we're not allowed to pray or think same way because of the new command Jesus gave us to love our enemies. Even the Chicago Statement of very conservative inerrancy acknowledge the presence of hyperbole in Jesus' statements and also that inerrancy does not apply to any translation.

 

Approaching the bible as truth in history, poetry, wisdom literature, biography and prophecy does not hurt a person's faith or relationship with God. It makes both stronger and richer. It is the product of our scientific age that we've understand truth only as scientific or mathematical and lost the beauty of truth in other forms.

 

Love,

 

Caroline

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