TAKING GOD AT HIS WORD – OR NOT
Monday, July 21, 2014
On Thursday, July
10, 2014 I published the following , asked for your reactions, and promised to identify
the author and publish your responses.
hom·i·nid (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hominids?s=t
)
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Spelled [hom-uh-nid] Show IPA noun Anthropology .
any of the
modern or extinct bipedal primates of the family Hominidae, including all
species of the genera Homo and Australopithecus.
Also, homonid,
ho·min·i·
A well known and respected contemporary
preacher, academic, and writer wrote the following.
“proposal:
that just as God chose Israel from the rest of humankind for a special,
strange, demanding vocation, so perhaps what Genesis is telling us is that God
chose one pair from the rest of early hominids for a special, strange,
demanding vocation. This pair (call them Adam and Eve if you like) were to be
the representatives of the whole human race, the ones in whom God’s purpose to
make the whole world a place of delight and joy and order, eventually
colonizing the whole creation, was to be taken forward.”
The identity of
the writer of the above proclamation is N. T. “Tom” Wright. For a brief bio on
the man, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright For further information click on links in the
article, or simply web search “N. T. Wright”. If interested in essay(s) by
Adrian Warnock on John Piper challenging N. T. Wright, go to http://www.patheos.com/blogs/adrianwarnock/2007/11/john-piper-challenges-n-t-wright-on/
Comments received
in response to Wright’s word were surprisingly few, quite brief, and could pretty
much be summed up under heading Wright is Wrong.
There were
however two longer comments.
Jim (MD) wrote “An
interesting thought, but WITHOUT any scriptural basis/verification or
validation. This "respected contemporary preacher" is not respected
by me. Jim“
Clyde “Seede”
Welch contributed “My thoughts would be that the one who made this statement is
an evolutionist or a borderline evolutionist who should not be a representative
of Christianity.
The garden Adam (man) was created in the image and
likeness of the Father God while the earlier hominids were creatures of their
intended creations and not in the image or likeness of the Creator.
That is if you
accept the idea of modern science that Adam was considered a hominid in the
first place. I do not accept that premise at all.
God’s purpose was
not to make this world a place of delight forever. The world was good at
its inception but not intended to remain good nor to last forever. God
does not make mistakes nor is He double minded.
The primary
purpose of Jesus was to establish His new covenant and kingdom of heaven (New
Jerusalem) and not to make this world or terrestrial universe into a garden of
delight. There’s nothing scriptural in that teaching at all.
God Bless.
Seede”
And as for me, I too
do disagree. EBB4
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