BLOGGING TOWARD SUNDAY…

After I wrote a few days ago on the Church of England’s recent apology to Charles Darwin, I ran across an article written by two professors at Luther Seminary dealing with the same issue. They argue that Darwin’s work “frees us” to read the Bible on its own terms, and further, helps us to realize that science and the Bible have different, but not necessarily conflicting, agendas.

“Science seeks answers to questions of what and how while biblical interpretation seeks answers to questions of who and why. The Genesis accouts of creation are less about the orgins of creation and more about the ordering of chaos and forming of relationship with us humans” (Word & World, Winter).

I just thought that some of you might like to hear this from someone other than me, just in case you were entertaining the notion that only I think this way. This is why good, accurate, responsible biblical interpretation is so important. We need to clearly hear what is God’s actual word to us, rather than miss the point altogether.

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