[Magdalen] She's leaving church

[Jay Weigel]

Andrew Greeley talked about a playful, "teenaged" God.....so why wouldn't
that God have made many different worlds with many different species, and
appeared to each one a little differently? God can do whatever God wants,
after all....

On Tuesday, June 2, 2015, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have found Borg's book on faith ("Convictions") to be very
> thought-provoking.  One thing he was good at elucidating is how we believe
> scripture without thinking that the text has historicity. It's one of the
> strengths of TEC that we believe scripture but not in its historicity.
>
> He even brings up that wonderful comment made prior to telling a sacred
> tale:
> "I don't if it happened this way, but I know that this story is true."
>
> Genesis is true -- but it is not a history text, not a science tutorial.
> Its subject matter is something entirely different and arguably more
> important.
>
> The Redactor did not accidentally put the Priestly text on creation right
> next to the J strand text on creation; he wanted to dramatize the nature of
> God by putting the two sources next to each other.  Yes, God is infinite
> and awesome, and yet God is intimate and personal.  Focus on either of
> those attributes and you have nothing.  Force yourself to focus as best
> your can on both of these simultaneously, and you just might get at a sense
> of the God Barth says we cannot imagine.  I do not think anyone anytime
> anyplace has done a better job of driving that point home, and without
> that, it's hard to do much of anything else, so the Redactor was wise to
> put right at the beginning.
>
>
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 8:11 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > Um, actually, I pretty much do believe it. The timing's way off,
> > of course, but you have to ask: what *is* a single day in God's
> > time?
> >
> > Our days are defined quite parochially (sunrise/sunset, a single
> > revolution of a small but lovely planet). God's day might be a
> > revolution of the milky way. Or something else.
> >
> > As a teacher once said, "Thoughts arise. Where do they come
> > from? They pass away. Where do they go?"
> > -M
> >
> > On Tuesday, June 2, 2015, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > magdalen at herberthouse.org <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > >
> > > You're talking Creationism, and I have no problem with that.
> > >
> > > I doubt anyone on list believes in Genesis literally.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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