Comments on: The New Gnostics http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2010/11/08/the-new-gnostics/ Theology you can eat and drink Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:01:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Mike Bull http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2010/11/08/the-new-gnostics/comment-page-1/#comment-5754 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:07:45 +0000 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/?p=6366#comment-5754 Wow, sweet AND sour.

Kelby

The need to classify Genesis 1 as a different genre to the rest of the book comes from attempting the impossible feat of maintaining biblical inerrancy while compromising with modern scientism.

For other readers (Kelby’s probably already read these), here’s some related posts:

http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2009/04/28/sweeping-genrelisations/

http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2009/07/13/communist-theology/

http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2010/04/13/the-black-box/

Thanks for your comments, guys!

]]> By: Kelby Carlson http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2010/11/08/the-new-gnostics/comment-page-1/#comment-5753 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:48:41 +0000 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/?p=6366#comment-5753 I absoultely hate this argument, and it is going to end up remaining one of the points of contension i have with both you and Jordan. The Bible is like the Trinity: an organic whole, unity in diversity. That means that different parts of the Bible need to be interpreted differently; this is really foundational to exegesis and hermeneutics, and i honestly think it gets missed when typology is used as such an all-encompassing framework. Genesis 1 and Matthew are different genres; we don’t look at them the same way, just as we don’t look at a biography and a poem the same way. I refuse to believe that God forbids us from using our reason in this matter. THe stance I reject is not so much young-earth creationism (which you are espousing here), but an unflinching, uncompromising approach to a clearly nonessential doctrine of scripture. It isn’t in the Apostle’s creed, so I don’t bother with it most of the time. But to claim an honestly reasoned position that does the best it can to interpret Genesis both within its original context and in the light of general revelation “gnostic’ poisons the well right off.

]]> By: Robert Murphy http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2010/11/08/the-new-gnostics/comment-page-1/#comment-5750 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:10:04 +0000 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/?p=6366#comment-5750 That was great! For a split second there, I thought, “No! J.J. going off the rails!?!” Then I kept reading. What a great reductio ad absurdum. The same even applies to the analogical interpretation.

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