tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post3740656965448620826..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: Scripture versus mythRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-39723990978992957542010-06-11T08:45:40.491-04:002010-06-11T08:45:40.491-04:00I wonder if this is an example of mythopoetic use ...I wonder if this is an example of mythopoetic use from Charles Spurgeon?:<br /><br /><i>Behold the hero of Golgotha using His cross as an anvil, and His wounds as a hammer, dashing to pieces bundle after bundle of our sins, those poisoned "flashing arrows", trampling on every indictment and destroying every accusation. <b>What glorious blows the mighty Breaker gives with a hammer far more powerful than the fabled weapon of Thor!</b></i><br /><br />From Charles Spurgeon 'Morning and Evening', June 11th Evening, revised and updated by Alistair Begg.Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06242793531954844979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-52879961250070746992010-03-10T11:10:11.018-05:002010-03-10T11:10:11.018-05:00Have you read Godawa's new research paper at t...Have you read Godawa's new research paper at the BIOLOGOS website? <br /><br />BIBLICAL CREATION AND STORYTELLING:<br />Cosmogony, Combat and Covenant<br /><br />http://biologos.org/uploads/projects/godawa_scholarly_paper.pdfEdwardtbabinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13036816926421936940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-80326308758662238392010-02-04T14:11:56.459-05:002010-02-04T14:11:56.459-05:00For a brief moment I thought you were going to est...For a brief moment I thought you were going to establish the myth about a meth lab! I know it seems crazy, however one seems it so?<br /><br />There is no meth about a myth.<br /><br />Well, how well do Methodists do with the myth?<br /><br />Well it is easy now for me to realize, after reading the quotations from the book that methods and mythologies are in some sense like the meth addict's belief in the myths of meth labs when he is high on the allusions of the same sort, there are no other references to specific myths in the Bible.<br /><br />Why does he care? He is high on the methods of the allusions, not the mythology!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-16072283490920657562010-02-04T10:48:24.228-05:002010-02-04T10:48:24.228-05:00“Beyond these and three or four briefer allusions ...<i>“Beyond these and three or four briefer allusions of the same sort, there are no other references to specific myths in the Bible. This is remarkable given the fact that Israel was completely surrounded by myths and mythical thinking…If we take the point of view that these are holdovers from an earlier stage of Israelite religion, then it seems to me that we are hard-pressed to explain what they are doing in these few places. Why were they not expunged with all the rest of the supposed original uses? Why leave these few, and only these? It seems much more likely to me that a conscious appropriation of literary imagery is the better explanation” (96)."</i><br /><br />This is the money excerpt for me.Truth Unites... and Divideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08891402278361538353noreply@blogger.com