Crossing cultures The Bible Biblical or

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Crossing cultures?

The Bible

Biblical or cultural?

Interpreting the Bible

Genesis 1 -3

What kind of literature?

Jewish Commentators

Writers of “the Fundamentals”

The Bible and Science

Advice from Schaefer

History of life on earth

Aside: Defining Evolution

Christian approaches to emergence of biological complexity

What kind of literature?

Aside: Emergence of Humans?

Advice from Billy Graham

Warfield on evolution

C. S. Lewis When the author of Genesis says that God made man in His own image, he may have pictured a vaguely corporeal God making man as a child makes a figure out of plasticine. A modern Christian philosopher may think of the process lasting from the first creation of matter to the final appearance on this planet for an organism fit to receive spiritual as well as biological life. Both mean essentially the same thing. Both are denying the same thing -- the doctrine that matter by some blind power inherent in itself has produced spirituality. . . . Does this mean that Christians on different levels of general education conceal radically different beliefs under an identical form of worlds? Certainly not. For what they agree on is the substance, and what they differ about is the shadow. When one imagines his God seated in a local heaven above a flat earth, where another sees God and creation in terms of Professor [Albert North] Whitehead’s philosophy, this difference touches precisely what does not matter. (C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock Eerdmans (1970), p 46)