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Illogic In The Church
By jason | November 26, 2007
Okay, I alluded to my growing frustration with our poor reasoning as followers of Christ (is it our culture or just the church world?). And I was struck by it again tonight. So tonight I begin an ongoing look at instances of illogic.
Here’s the thing, we all make mistakes, we all overstep our premises and draw outlandish conclusions at times. It happens. I mean maybe not with “you” but think of that friend of yours…
We don’t need to have a degree in philosophy or logic to be faithful to Jesus. But some common sense at times would be handy.
So tonight as I listened to another communicator teaching on Genesis 1 ran into a prime instance of illogic. The guy seems to be a great communicator, this is my first time to listen to him and I’m learning a lot from his delivery and his content.
His topic is origins and he is focusing on the age of the earth and specifically the use of “day” (yom) in Genesis 1. No need to rehash things surrounding this controversy but there are various understandings on whether Genesis 1 communicates a literal day or more figurative use, allowing for thousands even millions of years.
He is coming down on the side of a young earth (literal day), which is fine, that’s not the problem. At one point, however, he says one problem with a figurative day…Jonah. Scripture says Jonah was in a big fish for 3 days and Jesus himself holds to a literal Jonah claiming that just as Jonah was in the big fish for 3 days so he would be in the tomb for 3 days.
Therefore if a day could have been thousands or millions of years then Jonah is still in the belly of the big fish.
Okay class…anyone see the problem here?
Topics: Illogic |