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To: P-Marlowe; Dr. Eckleburg
So does that mean that you hold to a literal creation in the span of six days. (Six spins of the earth in temporal time)?

That's what that means.

… then by golly he should write a book about it. Why, just to satisfy your views on what constitutes appropriate commentary? For the record, you can search the American Vision web site and see the creationist activities of DeMar and his colleagues, including the Worldview Super Conferences they offer which often have speakers/topics on creationism.

All this info is easy enough to find out if one were interested.

DeMar rags on his fellow Christian for appearing to be inconsistent while at the same time offering no arguments …

Methinks you have not read enough DeMar to make that determination.

But just in case you really missed his point, let’s try it again.

The hermeneutical method that Morris allegedly employs to support a six-day creation/young earth view fails him miserably when it comes to future things. The method that arrives at “this” means “that” and “this is that” means “this is like that” is so transparently false that even skeptics can see the error.

It doesn’t require a book length treatment to show the error of such a method. Besides, a book would only make you task that much more difficult, since you have yet to actually come to Morris’ defense and help solve his hermeneutical dilemma.

Maybe your friends that you pinged to the party can help you out.

48 posted on 08/07/2007 9:38:25 AM PDT by topcat54 ("... knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience." (James 1:3))
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To: topcat54
The hermeneutical method that Morris allegedly employs to support a six-day creation/young earth view fails him miserably when it comes to future things. The method that arrives at “this” means “that” and “this is that” means “this is like that” is so transparently false that even skeptics can see the error.

Well that hermenutic is often employed by calvinists who claim that all means some and some means all. Additionally that Hermenutic is employed by Preterists who claim that the 70AD siege of Jerusalem was the worst tribulation that the world has ever seen, despite the fact that more people were killed in the six year siege that began in 130 AD than were killed in 70AD.

WWII dwarfed any tribulation that had occurred in the first century and yet we are to believe that the 70AD siege was the worst that would ever occur?

Everyone has their inconsistencies. The Bible is true, but our understanding of it is clouded and we see through a glass darkly. I have found that the dispensationalist model is the most consistent interpretive method. You may disagree. We are probably both wrong. When that which is perfect is come, then the whole thing will become clear.

49 posted on 08/07/2007 10:14:29 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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