Faith, Religion, and Theology. While Book Review

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It does not suggest that Scripture is infallible; merely that it is divinely inspired. It does not suggest that Scripture should be the controlling definer of Christian faith. It does not suggest that the New Testament should be treated in the same manner as the Old Testament, because Scripture referred solely to the Old Testament until well after the establishment of Christianity. What this means is that someone who uses a critical contextual perspective looks at the actual history behind the writings, places those writings within their historical, anthropological, and sociological settings, and uses those writing as a guidepost for understanding Christianity, rather than as an unwavering definition of Christianity.

Read the first two chapters of Genesis, and based on what you have studied about historical critical interpretation of the Bible, Why don't they (2 stories of creation) coincide? What do you think is the "truth," the message that God wanted to transmit through these words.

The two stories of creation in the Bible do coincide if one looks at them as general descriptions, rather than looking at them for specific details. Chapter one provides general details about God's plan for creation and the order in which he created things, while chapter two specifically discusses God's decision to create mankind and his actions in doing so. The fact that the two stories are not identical of may even have information that seems contradictory is unimportant when one looks at them and sees their overall message, which is that a creator god was responsible for the creation of the universe and, perhaps more importantly from a religious perspective, for the creation of humankind.

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In addition to establishing God as a creator God, Genesis also dips into allegorical tales. While Genesis talks about God bringing light to earth after creating earth and the heavens, this belies a modern understanding of the sun, which would be part of the heavens, as the source of light for the earth. However, when this light is not viewed solely as a literal source of light for the earth, but as a way of illuminating human existence, then Genesis becomes a clear allegory for how God illuminates human existence. This equation of light with knowledge is repeated throughout the Bible. God reveals himself through a burning bush, which is a source of light. Moses climbs up a mountain, closer to the sun, to get the Ten Commandments; the wise men follow a star to find Jesus. All of these stories suggesting that God is related to light show that God, like light, can reveal truth......

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