tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post642436058826838537..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: How does it differ from no gardener at all?Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-47387090184473625682016-11-03T09:20:22.779-04:002016-11-03T09:20:22.779-04:00Do you think Frame's response in contrast to t...Do you think Frame's response in contrast to that parable, scores?:<br /><br />Once upon a time two explorers came upon a clearing in the jungle. A man was there, pulling weeds, applying fertilizer, trimming branches. The man turned to the explorers and introduced himself as the royal gardener. One explorer shook his hand and exchanged pleasantries. The other ignored the gardener and turned away: "There can be no gardener in this part of the jungle," he said; "this must be some trick." They pitch camp. Every day the gardener arrives, tends the plot. Soon the plot is bursting with perfectly arranged blooms. "He's only doing it because we're here - to fool us into thinking this is a royal garden." The gardener takes them to a royal palace, introduces the explorers to a score of officials who verify the gardener's status. Then the skeptic tries a last resort: "Our senses are deceiving us. There is no gardener, no blooms, no palace, no officials. It's still a hoax!" Finally the believer despairs: "But what remains of your original assertion? Just how does this mirage, as you call it, differ from a real gardener?" (John M. Frame, "God and Biblical Language," God's Inerrant Word, ed. J. W. Montgomery (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1974), p. 171.)<br /><br />(quoted portion courtesy of http://jkjonesthinks.blogspot.com/2009/10/flews-gardner-and-gardner.html )Matthiashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04649482807995627662noreply@blogger.com