God the Son—Hands on Creator of all things!

Ray's August 4, 2000 Reply to Wrench

 

 

Ray Goldsmith

alka1@sssnet.com

 

Re: Re: To Wrench: God the Son
Friday, 04-Aug-2000 11:21:29

Hi Wrench: Ok, I will be considering what you say in this latest and it may take me a couple weeks or so to respond. I can see already, though, that some points we've been discussing have seemingly been dropped in mid-air and so we will need to revisit them.

As far as the specific points you objected to goes, I really think my responses were on the money and actually invited by your referral to a supposed distinction between "make" and "create" in Genesis 1:26-27. In the context of our over-all discussion the Genesis passage has already been mentioned by us both, several times, but the supposed distinction you introduced between "make" and "create" seemed quite provocative and certainly invited me to deal with it. After all, I could hardly just ignore it and let it drop. Trying to limit ourselves in this manner doesn't seem conducive to an objective discussion of the issues. For example, Wrench, What would you have thought had I refused to deal with your mention of this supposed distinction...on the same grounds? Do you think you might have thought to yourself "aha, he doesn't want to deal with this!"? Do you see why it's so hard to let something like that ride? I hope so. So anyway, I'll be reading thru your latest and see where it leads us, and I'll get back with you on the points that I think may have been dropped in midair.

I agree we should try to find some way to shorten things up, but it's never going to work if either of us should make such suggestions about the other in the very MIDST of such shortening. So long, friend, and by the way, I do not use the term lightly, I mean it.

Ray G.