Eddie and Paul Price on the Bible and Theology

[AllenWitmerMiller (Retired Professor & Minister.)]

@PDPrice

This is the core of your problem. You’re trusting what the scoffers are telling you, rather than the what God told us in the Bible.

And your definition of a scoffer is anyone who dares to disagree with you.

@Eddie

and these are both at their best when not being driven by agendas brought in from other fields.

@PDPrice

Yes, I agree wholeheartedly.

Drat. That one finished off yet another irony meter. I can’t afford to keep replacing them.

@Eddie

So if Jesus says the mustard seed is the smallest of all seeds, he is teaching that as a scientific fact? And if it turns out that there are smaller seeds, Jesus teaches an error?

Yet again, @Eddie beat me to the punch. Yes, the mustard seed is perhaps the most obvious example that destroys the claim of @PDPrice.

In rejoinder, I think we will see a link to yet another CMI website article any moment now.

Bingo. There it is. Told ya.

@PDPrice

That doesn’t make this any less important or foundational to the true biblical Christian faith, though.

@Eddie

In fact, almost nothing from Genesis 1-11 makes it into the Creeds, beyond a general notion of Creation.

Sometimes the obvious must be restated. Good job, @Eddie. Your patience and your stamina are admirable.

@Eddie

Fundamentalism is obsessed with discussing Genesis 1-11, and the importance it gives to those chapters is all out of proportion to the importance it had for the early Fathers and Councils.

Indeed. But without that obsession, a number of origins-focused ministries could not pay the bills.

@thoughtful

And the garden of Eden, fall, Tower of Babel and flood seem to be part of the Chinese alphabet at one time at least . . .

Have you investigated any of the scholarship which refutes this popular fad?

@thoughtful

Even if one of these characters holds up, that’s interesting.

Considering the many thousands of Chinese characters, I would call an occasional “hit” totally expected—and unremarkable. Besides, so many sermons and popular orations (e.g., John F. Kennedy) love to cite pseudo-etymologies and imagined stories. Have you ever heard that the Chinese character for crisis is a combination of the symbols for danger and opportunity? (That remains a favorite JFK inspirational quote.) It’s bunk. Face-palm quality bunk.

@PDPrice

You have the “smell” of a scoffer yourself, based on Peter’s warning.

OK. I’m done. I’m not as patient as @Eddie.