Speaking from Genesis 3:8-12, yet another advocate of Evolution Sunday, Jeffrey DeYoe, Trinity Presbyterian Church, Palm Coast, FL, had (among other things), this to say:
"... it must strike us at some point or another that if it is through literal devotion to stories such as these that we believe we are going to find true knowledge of our Creator, we are going to be sadly disappointed.
The image of God as this punitive parent lacking in grace and dedicated to imposing hardship on the whole of creation is a troubling one indeed. No one is spared God’s wrath—the serpent, Eve, Adam, or even the rest of creation for that matter—in a situation that really, if you think about it, Dr. Phil, or any pastoral counselor worth his or her salt could have resolved differently and with more success.
Thus the problem with blindly accepting the stories of ancient cultures that feebly try to explain things they do not understand and then somehow claim that through them we know the mind of God.
This is the sin of Creationism (aka Intelligent Design) in Church and Society
today: The belief that through the limited storytelling of an ancient people we
think we have in our possession everything God wants us to know.
It is like the serpent is saying to us: 'Go ahead, partake of this story, believe every word as being the literal truth about anything you want to know: history, morality, gender relationships...you name it. You will not die, because God will see that you now know as much as God knows.'
It is the biggest lie we are told and then tell to others."
So ... according to this spiritually enlighted individual, the Genesis account of creation (etc) is a classic example of the limited storytelling of an ancient people! God must feel rather cramped in this world, having to share space with such broad intellects!
[ You may check out the accuracy of this quote at:
http://www.butler.edu/clergyproject/pdf/deyoe_fl.pdf ] |
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