Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: understanding the Bible Message-ID: Date: 23 Jun 91 04:34:50 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 27 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article cole@maverick.uswest.com (Cole Keirsey) writes: +John Clark writes: +>.... >"Eoeo-centric" is a new one on me -- from context, I take it to mean Uh, 'Theo-centric'.... +I see no reason to accept as a matter of course that a +researcher's explanation of faith should not be God-centered. +One reasonable explanation for people's belief in God is that God exists. Another is that people wish that God exists. I also wish that Christians who do not feel a great animosity towards 'non-deistic' scientific explanations would be more vocal relative to the few who have some animosity. Like other religious activities the vocal minority seem to present 1) they have the truth 2) all others are more or less wrong. And further, it is a certain intellectual moral lapse not to state ones own beliefs when reviewing the beliefs of others. However, I amoung others don't always start my posts with 'I'm a non-believer...'. Although that may cut some of the posts that I get I don't I have hidden that fact in what I say. -- John Clark jclark@ucsd.edu