One more thing...
A big thanks to Travis Stanley for this post on his "Blogging with the Saints" site. St. Ephrem's respect and humility before the text would serve us well when we start to obsess about every detail of the Genesis account.
posted by Chris @ 3:02 PM
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Thanks for the thanks. Good links too. It's all too sad when scripture becomes a battlefield for Christians instead of the sanctifier it was intended to be.
Grace and peace!
Thanks, Travis. There has been quite a lot of controversy among NI churches of Christ over the past few years on this issue (which is what the links have reference to). But almost no one has suggested what seems obvious from a reading of St. Ephrem.
The Bible is a handbook for redemption, not science, of course. I recently read "Galileo's Daughter", a biography of Galileo framed by letters from his daughter that have survived. It strikes me how the Catholic Church reacted to Galileo's scientific propositions that today no one would debate as true. We know they're true. But the Catholic establishment believed they contradicted Scripture. Of course they did not, they simply contradicted their current understanding. We dare not fall into the same trap.
When asked how long did God take to create the world, I will respond "six days" because that's exactly what the text says. How long were those days? The natural understanding is 24 hours, but the text doesn't say that. One must at times be silent where the Bible is silent. What I do know is that the world was created by the power of the Word of God and is sustained by the will of the Son.
In this day one must add the disclaimer that I am not an evolutionist and believe it to be a pernicious lie designed to remove the necessity of God. Evolutionism is a faith based on the assumption that there is no God.
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