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From: jah@philabs.UUCP (Julie Harazduk)
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Subject: Re: Re: Evidences for Anthropocentricism
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 13:18:54 EDT
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> 	I would rather say that Genesis is an *allegory*, intended to
> *illustrate*(not define) the relationship between God and the world.
> I believe the author was trying to show that the *existing*,
> *accepted* account of the origin of the world was consistant
> with God's sovereignity. This is the opposite of what fundamentalists
> are trying to do!
> -- 
> 
> 				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

Please elaborate. What do you mean by "*existing* *accepted* account of
the origin of the world"? There have been several down through the ages.
What exactly do you think fundamentalists are trying to do?  You never
really made that clear.

Julie A. Harazduk

Mother to child: "If you could be anyone in the Bible, who would you be?"
Child to mother: "I would be Lo"
Mother to child: "Lo???"
Child to mother: "Sure, 'Lo, the angel of the Lord came....'