To: PetroniusMaximus
"Wrong.
Christ was referring to the literal account of Creation contained in Genesis. He begins his remarks with, "have you not READ..."
Sorry Petronius, you blew it again. One of the key tenets of Christianity is that the nature of God is ultimately unexplainable in rational human terms and therefore Christ cannot have meant that the creation story in Genesis is to be taken literally. This is the common doctrinal error made by Chrisitan fundamentalists who insist that the biblical story of creation is to be taken as explaining both the material and spiritual creation of man, which is an error.
To: StJacques
***One of the key tenets of Christianity is that the nature of God is ultimately unexplainable in rational human terms and therefore Christ cannot have meant that the creation story in Genesis is to be taken literally.***
So you're agnostic or irrational?
To: StJacques
One of the key tenets of Christianity is that the nature of God is ultimately unexplainable in rational human terms Yes, but don't forget divine incomprehensibility. To use an argument a fortiori, if we are not in the complete now of our own nature, or that of the universe, can't expect that we got a handle on God.
92 posted on
10/16/2005 3:41:03 PM PDT by
cornelis
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