On 12/04/2006, at 3:55 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
Non-fundamentalists Protestants (including a number of Evangelical
Christians I know) agree that inspiration is not dictation. One
common
theme, which I think you agree with, is that literalism puts God in
a box
that is far too small.
That I agree with too, and is one of my main issues with so-called
Intelligent Design (as theology, I mean, I have plenty of bigger
issues with it as science...). If one believes in a God that is
omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent, then how on earth does an ID-
er say that only SOME of God's Creation (those little bits "too
complex to have evolved" like flagella or the immune system)
represents direct creation? It strikes me as imposing limitations on
God that simply do not make sense in terms of monotheism, and it
demonstrates a fundamental (heh) insecurity in their own faith -
they're hanging everything on irrelevancies and are bound to be
either disappointed or sidelined into irrelevancy eventually.
Hopefully before they do too much damage.
Charlie
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