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Are we to take the Bible and interpret it accoding to the laws of interpretation?

Or are we (or, the Holy See) to interpret the Scriptures in the light of “the science of the times?” (Current dating methods, etc.)

Do we wanna have our cake, and eat it too?

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“Scripture alone makes a person complete, capable, and proficient.”

“Scripture furnishes all that one must know to be saved and to grow in grace.”

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B. New Methods of Literary Analysis

“No scientific method for the study of the Bible is fully adequate to comprehend the biblical texts in all their richness. For all its overall validity, the historical-critical method cannot claim to be totally sufficient in this respect. It necessarily has to leave aside many aspects of the writings which it studies. It is not surprising, then, that at the present time other methods and approaches are proposed which serve to explore more profoundly other aspects worthy of attention.”

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Correctly Handling the Word of Truth
Jesus said His words lead to eternal life (John 6:63). But for us to receive eternal life through His words, they must be taken as He intended them to be taken.

A cultic reinterpretation of Scripture that yields another Jesus and another gospel (2 Corinthians 11:3-4; Galatians 1:6-9) will yield only eternal death (Revelation 20:11-15).

From:
Rightly Interpreting the Bible
home.earthlink.net/~ronrhodes/Interpretation.html
 
The article is useless, as one would expect from the Kolbe Center. It’s a pity the name of that saintly man has become associated with the work of lunatics.
You have to admit they’re right about one thing: That evolution isn’t science. After all, you can’t prove any of their claims using experiments.

But… I guess you’re rather just call our esteemed ***real ***scientist Forum member, Peter Wilders, a lunatic and not address the issue at all.
 
You have to admit they’re right about one thing: That evolution isn’t science. After all, you can’t prove any of their claims using experiments.

But… I guess you’re rather just call our esteemed ***real ***scientist Forum member, Peter Wilders, a lunatic and not address the issue at all.
Peter Wilders is no more a scientist than I am the king of Siam

Alec
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These are Popes that seem to have compromised with the science of the day. Scripture is quite clear!
Aha. Another person who can see clearly that these popes are in error and heresy
Tell me…when did the Genesis Flood happen in accordance with the Bible (approx 4500 years ago)? When to evolutionists say A catastrophic event took place (65 million years ago)? Who are you going to listen to?
That’s easy. Certainly not to someone who claims that a global flood occurred 4,500 years ago. I’ll stick with the evidence thank you - the KT iridium anomaly and the total lack of evidence for a global flood at any time,. never mind as recently as 4500 years ago…

Alec
evolutionpages.com
 
Neil_Anthony posts:

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I liked the experiments demonstrating that rock strata can’t be used to date fossils. How old is this research, and what are scientists doing about it so far?
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Paleohydraulic analyses in the field and experiments in the laboratory are continuing in Russia. See:

www.sedimentology.fr

Incidentally I am well informed on the research but not a scientist.

Peter
 
Zian posts:

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Originally Posted by Neil_Anthony
[See this movie for info:
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I gave it a listen through the presenter’s (Peter’s) interviews with Fondi and Sermonti, but then I just got tired of listening to such willful ignorance.
Cardinal Ratzinger before becoming Pope watched the entire video. Afterwards, he said he found it interesting and had no objection to it being distributed. You should have seen it through to the end before judging it, as did the Cardinal.

Peter
 
Peter:
Incidentally I am well informed on the research but not a scientist.
I am a scientist, and I can attest that you exhibit very little sign of understanding the evidence for, or remaining problems in, biology or geology.
 
The Barbarian: What would be your best guess as to when the fall of Adam and Eve happened?

I believe Adam and Eve were the first Homo Sapiens so sometime soon after they were created as the first Homo Saiens is my guess. What do you think of that guess? What would be your best scientific guess?

And if science cannot make a guess as to something theological such as the Fall of Adam and Eve do you think it is possible for one to use both their scientific mind and their theological mind and come up with a guess?

Is it OK for anyone to ever contemplate the intersection of science and thology?
 
Peter:

I am a scientist, and I can attest that you exhibit very little sign of understanding the evidence for, or remaining problems in, biology or geology.
That’s all well and good, but where are your experiements with running water laying sediment, prooving that the earth is so old and that we descended from apes? I haven’t seen any of the missing links in any scientific document(arie)s.
 
Yes, but the subject is such a hot potato that at this stage they prefer not to be named. A recent study of the subject which ended this year has been awarded the ‘imprimatur’ and ‘nihil obstat’;

**They prefer not to be named? hmmm…okay…so its still just you with the courage to stand up…Have you sent this off to the Vatican yet? **

It should be sufficient for you to know that to our knowledge all orthodox theologians (e.g. such as St Thomas, Suarez, Sylvestre de Ferrare, Cardinal Mazella) spanning five centuries, up to the introduction of ET, agreed with the meaning of Lateran IV which precludes macro-evolution. This is not something new, just someting that got overlooked in the rush to embrace evolution - a theory without proof.

Peter
To “our” knowledge" you and the people who are afraid yet to be known on this mometous issue? I’m rather sorry but you’re credibility never high from the beginning, has now disappeared with your imaginary supporters.
 
Beats me how an article by a militant creationist who is not a scientist and who has about the same academic or intellectual authority as a Kent Hovind or a Ken Ham can be “enlightening”? This outdated article is just the same old anti-intellectual, anti-science, showboating garbage riddled with error and ignorance that the likes of Hovind and Ham produce. Worthless.

Alec
evolutionpages.com
Yeah Ed’s arguments get worse and worse. By the way, I’ve found the best site imaginable…Its called The Panda’s Thumb. His links are the most outstanding I’ve ever seen on the issue of creationism/ID and evolution. There are I would think well over a 100 different links to every reputable scientific organization in the world. The blog owner apparently is a well-recognized expert as well. You can find him on my blog under “watching the religious right” for a direct link.
 
That’s all well and good, but where are your experiements with running water laying sediment, prooving that the earth is so old
Have you never opened a geology textbook? These processes are going on around you right now.
and that we descended from apes?
The first evidence for that was made clear when Thomas Huxley, showed Owen, from his own evidence that there was no feature of the human brain that was not found in chimpanzee brains and vice versa. Genetics has since shown that we are more closely related to chimpanzees than chimpanzees are related to other apes. And we have even found that the chromosomal differences between man and chimp is a chromosome fusion, with one human chromosome being a copy of two chimp chromosomes, right down to the remains of telemeres at the fusion.

There’s a lot more. Do you want to see more?
I haven’t seen any of the missing links in any scientific document(arie)s.
“Missing link” is not a scientific term. But there are many transitional fossils. Let’s take skulls as a starting point. What would you consider to be a skull transitional between apes and humans?

Would you agree that if there were no transitionals, then we should be able to definitely divide all fossil ape or human skulls into one group or the other?

Feel free to ignore the request if you already realize that numerous “missing links” exist.
 
These are Popes that seem to have compromised with the science of the day. Scripture is quite clear!

For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. (Exodus 20:11 KJV)

Tell me…when did the Genesis Flood happen in accordance with the Bible (approx 4500 years ago)? When to evolutionists say A catastrophic event took place (65 million years ago)? Who are you going to listen to?
Umm…I’m gonna listen to scientists and the last two popes and the teaching magisterium. Why don’t you try that instead of stubbornly thinking that your opinion is better? Now it might well be that you are correct and the great weight of humanity is dead wrong, but isn’t it worth a fair examination when you are in such a tiny minority?
 
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Tah_Dah_Man:
Correctly Handling the Word of Truth
Jesus said His words lead to eternal life (John 6:63). But for us to receive eternal life through His words, they must be taken as He intended them to be taken.

A cultic reinterpretation of Scripture that yields another Jesus and another gospel (2 Corinthians 11:3-4; Galatians 1:6-9) will yield only eternal death (Revelation 20:11-15).

From:
Rightly Interpreting the Bible
home.earthlink.net/~ronrhodes/Interpretation.html
You’ve given us 3 posts of nice fuzzy things. Care to explain what they have to do with this discussion and what your position is and why?
 
The Barbarian: What would be your best guess as to when the fall of Adam and Eve happened?
I really have no way of knowing, since it was a supernatural event, and there’s no way to test it. If it happened to H. erectus before we became H. sapiens, would it matter? Since it doesn’t seem to matter to God (otherwise He’d have told us) I don’t worry much about it.
I believe Adam and Eve were the first Homo Sapiens so sometime soon after they were created as the first Homo Saiens is my guess. What do you think of that guess? What would be your best scientific guess?
My thinking is that it was an earlier form of Homo. We really didn’t become H. Sapiens until after we split from the common ancestor of us and H. neandertalis, and the Neandertals seem to have had some concept of the spiritual, given burials and occasional artwork.
And if science cannot make a guess as to something theological such as the Fall of Adam and Eve do you think it is possible for one to use both their scientific mind and their theological mind and come up with a guess?
I just did, but I have no way of testing it.
Is it OK for anyone to ever contemplate the intersection of science and thology?
I think it’s a healthy and useful thing. It is one of my strong interests. The important thing, is not to conflate the two.
 
Have you never opened a geology textbook? These processes are going on around you right now.

The first evidence for that was made clear when Thomas Huxley, showed Owen, from his own evidence that there was no feature of the human brain that was not found in chimpanzee brains and vice versa. Genetics has since shown that we are more closely related to chimpanzees than chimpanzees are related to other apes. And we have even found that the chromosomal differences between man and chimp is a chromosome fusion, with one human chromosome being a copy of two chimp chromosomes, right down to the remains of telemeres at the fusion.

There’s a lot more. Do you want to see more?

“Missing link” is not a scientific term. But there are many transitional fossils. Let’s take skulls as a starting point. What would you consider to be a skull transitional between apes and humans?

Would you agree that if there were no transitionals, then we should be able to definitely divide all fossil ape or human skulls into one group or the other?

Feel free to ignore the request if you already realize that numerous “missing links” exist.
The textbooks didn’t give any proof. they just told me what to believe. Like a fundamentalist approach to science.

On the other hand, scientific documentaries like Peter Wilders’ show that the layers were created sideways by current, over a period of hours, not millions of years, and so all the dating is wrong. And the missing links haven’t been found. They’re all missing. Show me one missing link.
 
That’s all well and good, but where are your experiements with running water laying sediment, prooving that the earth is so old and that we descended from apes? I haven’t seen any of the missing links in any scientific document(arie)s.
Your position is so UNCLEAR I can never figure you out. At various times you appear to be on both sides of the issue. It seems to me you are somewhat convinced but not totally, and I find that odd at best. It seems unlikely that one can actually be in the middle. One either accepts the overwhelming attestation of evidence or one knowingly chooses to deny it in favor of a position one finds more personally satisfying and nonthreatening.
 
Your position is so UNCLEAR I can never figure you out. At various times you appear to be on both sides of the issue. It seems to me you are somewhat convinced but not totally, and I find that odd at best. It seems unlikely that one can actually be in the middle. One either accepts the overwhelming attestation of evidence or one knowingly chooses to deny it in favor of a position one finds more personally satisfying and nonthreatening.
Well I was all against creationism until I saw Peter’s video. Did you watch it? it shows how the layers can be created in just minutes.
 
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