I also find this amusing:
The context of Genesis as a straightforward, in an obvious sense, authentic, literal, historical record of what actually happened
It's a nice example of what Reader Dave has pointed out to be the most common fundamentalist error: an attempt to impose post-enlightment rationalist standards of historical scholarship on a text written for a people who knew nothing of such things.
"Hubris!" screamed the pig vehemently; the kettle darkened blackly. Pigs may well fly, if but for their singing; except that nobody wants to waist the're thyme by annoying pigs.
>I love how raygun claims his single set of "rules" can be applied to the entire Bible, as if it were a single book conforming to a single literary paradigm. It's amazing anyone can make such a claim with a straight face.<
If you don't understand what he wrote just say so don't throw rocks because it is over your head..He laid out a systematic procedure for consistently doing exegesis on all scriture.By the way the method he expoused has been used by theologians both Protestant and Catholic for years.