RE: Christian Faith Requires Accepting Evolution
July 21, 2013 at 6:20 pm
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2013 at 6:23 pm by MindForgedManacle.)
(July 21, 2013 at 4:22 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: "Genesis 1 isn't a scientific text.
Indeed.
Quote:It's not about a journalistic, wooden accounting of material origins; but a theological proclamation of the good Creator God investing purpose and meaning into His good creation; the crafting of the sacred spaces of His dwelling, and filling them.
Pray tell, what indication is there for this at all in Genesis 1?
Furthermore, you're statement essentially begs the question of why it doesn't just say the way God actually 'created' everything. You say Genesis 1 isn't "journalistic" but about God "investing purpose and meaning into his good creation". That is all nonsense unless it is the case that Genesis is actually referring to the way things actually happened because otherwise - aside from then being story padding - the actual details are inherently misleading because they specifically state things along the lines of "God did X" and "God was pleased with having done Y".
And there is nothing about a god creating anything that gives it some objective purpose.
Quote:Simultaneously, the text is a theological polemic that demotes and de-divinizes the cosmic powers which other Near Eastern cultures worshiped.
I'll take your word on this, but it is interesting to note that even if the purpose was to de-divinize certain things, it then becomes strange that those to whom these texts were sacred were in fact polytheists, probably including even Abraham and certainly Moses. More notably, for centuries there was no hint of these peoples being monotheistic at all, and even the things you're claiming that Genesis 1 de-divinies still go on to have representative deities by those whom had the would-be Genesis account as a sacred text.
IT'S A METAPHOR YOU FUNDY ATHEISTS!!11
