@Ken: Now you’re getting exegetical! Me, when I …

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@Ken:
Now you’re getting exegetical! Me, when I look at that particular text, rereading it again and again, my eyes always see “made.” Right there, in B&W, regardless of version, in Times New Roman or some totally legible sans serif font, on paper or Kindle, wherever you want to look. He that hath eyes… (need I?) You’re seeing “evolved”? How’d you do that! Better yet, why? Better yet, sigh…

Meanwhile back to faith vs. evidence, Bible vs. mind — my eyes always see BOTH, not one or the other. Like love & marriage, efferent & afferent, autonomic and voluntary nervous systems. Sympathetic and parasympathetic. Eccrine & apocrine. Like male and female at the altar (not…need I?). He made them (no, not evolved them) both, separate but equal, equally crucial.

Mercifully, people seem quick enough to see the difference as well as the connection between male & female than faith & evidence, or used to. But nowadays … (need I?). Well, that’s what it’s come to, in this cheery, whimsical, channel-gender-switching postmodern age. Have a good agnoevolution!

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A big reason why so many people are leaving the church
@BobRyan: Assigning digits, to the nth decimal, to faith and evidence? 23.4% Impressive! Rather like Ivory Soap is 99.44% pure, Obama’s approval rating as of 10;05.66 AM is 43.68%, the precision itself being 99.44% evidence of validity, or are we to receive it 100.00003% on faith? Studies show that such postings are 78.88% belittling.


A big reason why so many people are leaving the church
@ken: “…a PENULTIMATE deity…” I Just can’t let that one go by.

By whim or whimsy you may willy-nilly consign the cosmic Ultimacy to myth, metaphor, metonym, or model; to M, string, or Gaia theory; to quark or quantum; to geometric form, bronze, marble, or electronic, JPEG or TIFF; to pantheism or atheism, but never consign Him to penultimacy. Thanks, friend.


A big reason why so many people are leaving the church
@Ken: And greetings to you!

But my immediate question is, is Martin any relation to Kingsley, the Sir Kingsley Amis? He is: son, which of course you know. Doesn’t everybody?

Though circular, as you say, Amis’s anti-postmodernist reasoning (what he’s famous for, besides fiction, like his dad) is fine, and I’m in his circle. Hail, fellow anti-Postmodernist Orbiteer! Too bad there’s nothing, not even stray cosmic dust, at the center.

Meanwhile, anent Ex 3:14, I AM THAT I AM (Ex 3:14 KJV), if that is circularity it is the consummate and ultimate circle encompassing every other circle and orbit from subatomic to hypergalaxic, not just a circle but a sphere, encompassing and enclosing, at once orbit and nucleus, the very nucleus of the cosmos, is what I think about Ex 3:14. And John 8:58, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”

Meanwhile?


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I accept that I must accept it, wholly, actively, even with agony, with my whole being.