Posted on 11/06/2015 12:06:46 PM PST by Jandy on Genesis
Er, didn’t you just post this a couple of days ago?
Don’t make me sick humblegunner on you.
“Until we better understand their beliefs and religious practices we will continue to impose incorrect or inadequate interpretations on the Bible.”
God isn't in the casual observer business.
No, but I am. And if God’s word isn’t correctly interpretable after millennia, He’s a bad communicator.
Or, of course, the statement in the article is just a bunch of hooey. I’ll leave that for the reader to decide.
Why the duplicate? Dissatisfied with the results of your first attempt?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3356800/posts
What the hell is wrong with you and all the self-promotion?
Ah. Well. There's that.
From what I can gather, she has spent many years doing something she thinks colleges should be teaching and offering majors in. I don’t know how that ties in the FreeRepublic, but what do I know?
Perhaps the problem is in being a ‘casual observer’ instead of an ‘active participant’ in reading the Bible.
And directing traffic to her blog.
And assuming she is qualified to lecture you.
No thanks.
It’s not about reading the bible. It’s about not being able to reliably interpret it thousands of years later. Unless, of course, the article is a lot of hooey.
As a student of the Bible, Old Testament, one of the most glaring contradictions between what was mentioned in the Bible and that of which we know of genetics is that genetic characteristics are not adopted by potential offspring simply by viewing colors, shapes or designs. Yet as mentioned in Genesis 30:40, the Old Testament,the adoption of certain characteristics by sheep does occur simply by viewing those very characteristics as facilitated by Jacob in Genesis 30:40.
Genesis 30:40
Jacob Prospers
So the flocks mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted. 40 Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with Laban's flock. 41 Moreover, whenever the stronger of the flock were mating, Jacob would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the gutters, so that they might mate by the rods; How is this possible knowing that such phenomena can not occur according to the laws of genetics?
A central task of biblical anthropology is to uncover cultural antecedents, such as the origin of messianic expectation.
>>Whats wrong with Gen. 3:15 as the antecedent? Why bring in a bunch of anthropologists to give us some cockamamie explanation about messianic expectation when the Bible is clear enough.
Long before any “anthropology antecedents,” Gen. 3:15 prophesies the Messiah. Both comings of the Messiah, as a matter of fact.
The first one in which the promised “seed” would be wounded in his struggle with the devil (his heel bruised), the second when the promised “seed” would crush the devil’s head.
Indeed, we read any writing with a better understanding when we have some knowledge of the worldview of the writer.
If you haven’t read it, asking the Holy Spirit to interpret it then it will be nothing but confusion.
Like the parables to the Pharisees, it WILL make no sense.
So you’re saying the Holy Spirit takes care of the interpretation. What do you think this is all about, then?
” Until we better understand their beliefs and religious practices we will continue to impose incorrect or inadequate interpretations on the Bible. “
You complained about me not posting the entire article, so I did.
How is it you declare your own material as an "article"?
Shouldn't it be more of a vanity posted in chat?
Or maybe something sent to your email pals?
Who exactly do you think you are?
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