tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34228952.post5301686737666879022..comments2023-09-19T02:45:43.377-05:00Comments on Ephesians 4.22: Chadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168528627279213036noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34228952.post-20656756331330049302006-12-29T01:33:00.000-05:002006-12-29T01:33:00.000-05:00nice, concise list.nice, concise list.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34228952.post-84047021672963157692006-12-15T06:07:00.000-05:002006-12-15T06:07:00.000-05:00Yeah. Good post there. Hmmm...I think I'll toss ...Yeah. Good post there. Hmmm...I think I'll toss down something I wrote a while back as a comment:<br /><br />It’s not as though a billion minds, all functioning in sin,<br />Could somehow unlock heaven’s doors and dare to peek therein.<br />Or that a scholar with his trowel out sifting through the soil<br />Could see the truth through nothing less than through sheer weight of toil.<br />For sin has killed and corrupted man’s reason, faith and sight<br />So that, though staring at the facts, they’re ne’er perceived aright.<br />The carnal man is dead in sin, he can’t tell truth from lies.<br />He must be brought from death to life and given seeing eyes!<br /><br />For facts aren’t truly understood until they are aligned<br />And placed within the context of God’s perfect, holy mind.<br />Where is this mind? Where should one go that one may understand<br />The facts about the apple that is grasped within the hand?<br />Or that one may know thoughts divine, thoughts greater than one’s own?<br />The ponderings of him who sits above upon the throne?<br />I tell you sir that God has unveiled, by prophetic pen,<br />His mind within the holy scriptures given unto men.<br /><br />In that scripture we learn of man’s creation and fall,<br />And how Christ’s death upon the cross provides now for us all<br />A way to triumph over sin and then, our minds renew<br />So we can have faith in God’s word and discern what is true!<br />Hence if one seeks to comprehend the world one lives within,<br />To turn ‘facts’ into ‘evidence’, one needs to deal with sin!<br />It's not sheer facts that parry evolution's swinging sword,<br />but whether one sees facts through eyes submitting to the Lord.<br /><br />*********************************<br /><br />No doubt Mr. Anonymous will completely reject pretty much every point you make and somehow mock what you say about the biblical creation account. What's funny is that a majority of the biblical exegetes who use the original languages, both conservative and liberal, see that the Genesis account is portraying a creation of 6, 24 hour days. The thing is that many of them reject that account on other grounds than biblical grounds.<br /><br />Bruce Waltke agrees that Genesis is clear in it's talk of "day", and in the Hebrew there's no two ways about it. He rejects the literal understanding of it though "based on the hermeneutical challenges offered by modern science".<br /><br />Dennis Lamoreaux, from the University of Alberta, does the same thing with Genesis 1. You use the "Wayyiqtol narritive construct" argument with him and he admits that Hebrew narrative is ALWYAS clearly indicated by a Wayyiqtol construct but then simply says "...except for here. This part isn't historical narative. See the Chiastic structure? The symmetry means that it's poetry.". Excuse me Dennis? Since when does symmetry overrule concrete linguistic construction?<br /><br />Yeah. Anyway, good post.The Armchair Theologianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00316831437599309212noreply@blogger.com