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- From: vnelson@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gerald Vernon Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Young earth creationist logic NOT!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.051347.4310@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- References: <903@tdat.teradata.COM> <1992Aug19.150014.15370@acuson.com> <918@tdat.teradata.COM>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 05:13:47 GMT
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- In <918@tdat.teradata.COM> swf@teradata.com (Stanley Friesen) writes:
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- >Now, unless you can show that the moral/spriritual principles being expounded
- >in 1 Peter *depend* on a literal Noah, the fact that he didn't exist is of
- >little theological significance. (That is, does Noah being a myth necessarily
- >imply that the *intended* *message* of the passage is also incorrect - I don't
- >think so, so I attach no importance to such minor, irrelevant idiosyncracies
- >of the individual authors).
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- If Noah is a fictional character, then he and the text that contains his
- story has no more significance than any other folk story.
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- Do you also pray to the god Aesop and read blindly his book of fables?
-
- Vern Nelson
-