Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!SDSUMUS!D2MG From: D2MG@SDSUMUS (Kurt Evans) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.christia Subject: KE: Literally True Message-ID: <09FEB90.25265659.0017.MUSIC@SDSUMUS> Date: 10 Feb 90 05:23:38 GMT Sender: Practical Christian Life Reply-To: Practical Christian Life Lines: 35 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway Abigail, Thanks for the last post. I'm interested in your doctoral thesis on the history of Bible interpretation up to the 12th century, but I'd rather not put you under obligation (photocopying and mailing it). If it's no trouble, my address is: 413 Young Hall, Brookings, SD 57007. I'm also interested in Augustine's *On Christian Doctrine* since I've heard Billy Graham say good things about him. I'll check it out. A few weeks ago you said: > There is a good deal of agreement among Christians of quite dif- >ferent views on the Bible that the book of Job is a work of fiction >in the sense that Job himself, his family, the country of Uz, and so >on, never existed. This kind of ruffled my feathers. I guess most of the Christians I spend time with are members of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, a fundamentalist organization, so we take it all literally. Something else that troubled me about your posts was the repeated implication that science has disproved Genesis. The arguments that once "proved" the Theory of Evolution have dissolved. I feel it is critical to defend all the writings of Moses. I base this belief on the following statement by Jesus in John 5: 46 "For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote of Me. 47 "But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?" In my opinion, I've seen Steve Grimes totally demolish the supposed evidence for Evolution on another list. I'm happy to answer questions here the best I can, although I'm not nearly as well-informed as Steve. For Jesus' glory, Kurt