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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: what does it mean to talk to God [a brief attempt at an answer]
Message-ID: <1284@shark.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Mar-85 19:21:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 12 19:21:16 1985
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References: <893@topaz.ARPA> <2635@mcnc.UUCP> <4947@cbscc.UUCP> <338@mhuxm.UUCP>
Reply-To: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
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Summary: 

[feed a bug, starve a lineater]

In article <338@mhuxm.UUCP> abeles@mhuxm.UUCP (abeles) writes:
>(This makes it imperative that all religions adjust to modernity:  they
>run a serious risk of being considered outmoded.  Hence, many religious
>authorities today do not consider evolution to be in conflict with
>the story of creation in Genesis--a new interpretation is developed
>to the extent that before the world was created, the meaning of the
>word "day" was unclear and could constitute centuries or more.)

Actually, this isn't the outright creation of a new interpretation.  The
tradition that "A day for the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand
years as a single day" dates from before Jesus.  The problem was in the
literalistic interpretation which came earlier, which did not consider all
that was known about God.

Hutch