Re: paleonet Re: suitable discussion: Short addendum

[Peter Paul Smolka <smolka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Frank Holterhoff wrote:

> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 15:33:16 -0500
> From: Frank Holterhoff <frank@matricus.com>
> Reply-To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
> To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: paleonet Re: suitable discussion
>
> Help, I'm having an identity crisis!  Am I really one of the Bad Guys?
>
> even a very good Christian, as I'm not big on evangelizing, which is the
> Great Commission Jesus gave to all Christians.  But I'm also VERY

( ... )

Dear Frank,

I would say regarding above (translated from German):

He said: "Go around and teach all peoples."

2000 years ago: What was known at that time.

21st century: The knowledge of today.

E.g.: What he encouraged was: Increasing knowledge.
(= not only for some high clericals but for all).

I might thus suggest, possibly to be forwared to the evangelicals:

It might be sorted out what Jesus said himself (or is attributed
in the bible as "by God / Jesus / the angels" and what it means
and what bishops/mullahs made out of it.

Thus, "heavy bible readers", should be among the most
open-minded for science (teaching requires knowing).

Possibly this might help to raise some open-mindedness in bible people.

(trying to debunk someone does not help to raise open-mindedness;
one of the first steps is to reach people where they are (one question,
a few days ago, asked for pragmatic possibilities) and then to
build bridges).

>
> F

Best regards, Peter


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