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I like your question, but if he's daring enough to suggest something like that, why would it bother you?? Isn't it more important just to go with the theological implications, so if someone decides to add a piece of information like Adam's age when he sinned, surely it doesn't hurt the theological message, right?
For people who insist on taking it all literally at least stick to what is actually written.
This has to do with end time events and the end of the age. In the last 50 years a lot of pastors have had a real itch to talk about this subject. I went to a church the pastor wrote a book about the "rapture" and even they put on a play. The church seats 2400 and they would fill all the seat for people that wanted to see the play. Look at this board with all the different beliefs and all the people that reject the scientific methods to know the truth.
We study the evidence God gives us to study. The Bible clearly says: You shall know the truth. Some people just do not seem to want to know. I am not quite sure why. For me I just go where the evidence takes us. I do not believe that God is trying to trick us and deceive us. Although the Bible does talk about who is out to trick and deceive. That all started with Eve and the Serpent.
This is why we have developed the scientific method. In the hope that we can cut through the nonsense. My father was a very well respected and trusted doctor. He respected science and stayed out of the controversy over religion. His question was: Who do you believe. He showed us the people who were happy and rejoiced in life no matter what the adversity was. He avoided hell fire, doom and gloom people.
This is why we have the scientific method to get through to the truth. Of course I understand that science can be abused but people seem to abuse religion a whole lot more. Look at the churches that want to go the way of the world and accept homosexual bishops. The funny thing is all the people that believe they have the truth and all the other churches have false teaching. Jesus was pretty clear that you can expect to be persecuted if your a christian.
I did not state it as fact. I simply asked if anyone dared to imagine it and what post exilic intentions could have been.
A delicate balance between hermeneutic of suspicion and hermeneutic of recovery.
Science needs evidence. That is what science is. We can believe in miracles but we can not really document them. They tend to call a miracle spontaneous remission. They use to believe in "spontaneous generation," but that was proven not to be true. Science sets the standard higher than religion does.
Science can not handle what can not be proven to be true. In this regard they are agnostic. Although there are atheists that want to hijack science for their own aganda. They promote that creation was random and unguided but science does not support this. Science says we are a product of the natural laws which may or may not have been established by God. You want to reject the laws that God created.
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