Posted on 01/25/2011 5:42:51 AM PST by Cronos
**the Assembly affirm that such diversity as covered in this report is acceptable**
Ya gotta love the Catholic Church because things like this are not stated and do not happen.
Thanks Cronos and wideawake for your replies. I appreciate the debate, and the Presbyterian attempt to understand the different positions and interpretations.
I personally don’t have a position - there is too much that we don’t know...
I see “ And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.” and I see that from Day 1 it is legit to speak in terms of days and nights, from light to darkness and back again.
However, I see “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:” and I think of the institution of a specific 24-hour duration assigned to a day/night cycle on day 4... but that is just an interpretation.
Again - I see why the PCA made the decision they did. Absent further data its hard to pin things down.
Maybe you should request the category to be changed from "Other non-Christian" to "Protestant" while you're at it.
Since I wasn’t there at the time, and can’t find anyone who was, or who knows anyone who was there, other than God Himself, I’m just going to put this on my list of questions to ask God when He gets around to asking me if I want to know anything.
This is on a long list of things that I believe God did and continues to do, but I don’t know how.
I wonder whose faith would be shaken if it turned out that “morning and the evening” were something other than 24-hour periods. I always had the impression that time was not something that really meant much to God, but as with so many things in my faith life, I stand to be corrected (by God, not necessarily by others on this site).
The Hebrews did not count days from midnight to midnight and different rabbinical schools had different rules for when exactly a day officially ended.*
However, I believe they used the same word, yom, when they were referring to a normal day as was used in Genesis.
I haven't been reading this thread. So are these "redneck Presbyterians" selling out to evolution then?
I know very little about Presbyterians. Here in my own rural Upper South county there is only one Presbyterian church--a Cumberland Presbyterian (whatever that means). Here we're mostly Baptist, CofC, and Pentecostal (with a United Methodist remnant hanging on apparently for reasons of family tradition).
Anti-Protestantism: the last acceptable prejudice among Catholics.
Correct.
The "yom" of Genesis is considered to be the same unit of time as the "yom" used for counting the "omer" of Leviticus 23:15.
I used scare quotes specifically because Zionist Conspirator (a proud, self-described "redneck") uses this phrase to refer to salt-of-the-earth conservative Southern Protestants.
As he will attest, it's part of a long-running commentary between him and myself.
There are plenty of "redneck" Catholics as well, and I much prefer their company to the common jaded, urban cafeteria Catholic of the Northeast.
There's no direct mention of evolution.
They are stating that a 6 day creation is an optional interpretation.
Wideawake is one of the good guys, Alex.
Since the bible IS the Word of God and he says he did it in 6 days, I have no question it was done in 6 days, 24 hrs each.
God Bless
To add to the confusion, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, founded in 1936, was originally named the Presbyterian Church of America. They were forced to change their name because of a lawsuit brought by the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A, from which they broke away.
Perhaps the best commentary I’ve read on the Apocalypse of John is by G.K. Beale, an OPC elder.
Are you sure?
As opposed to a lexical person whose only job in life is to post articles on each catholic in chatanooga and then cry?
Then His description of the events should be good enough for you.
Alex is a Presbyterian too — right Alex?
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