Cheryl Schatz

Don,
I have already asked you previously what ordering of the items are not sequential and why you cannot put them into a single sequential narrative. It seems to me that your paradigm doesn’t allow you to accept the sequential of both inspired accounts that can easily be put together. Without giving a reason for why the accounts do not fit together other than it doesn’t fit your preconceived view, seems to me to be a weak view. I could be wrong of course, but to know I am wrong would necessitate facts that I can review and test. I have shown how it is logical and quite natural to keep the sequential order and put Genesis 1 & 2 into a single narrative. I have no way to measure your problems since you haven’t listed them.

I am not about to read a book to understand your way of reasoning. Honestly right now I am over loaded as I am working on the issue of the Sovereignty of God for a new DVD I am authoring plus I am also editing a video project for another author. There are quite a number of books that I need to research for my next script and I am also looking at the different avenues to get a book published on the issue of women in ministry. It is an exciting time for me yet very stressful so I do need to limit the paths that I can personally travel down. Unfortunately if you cannot list your division between literal, non-literal, poetic, myth, etc, there won’t be anything to discuss here because I do not have the time to read another book.

I would encourage you to try to answer questions on your view in an clear fashion. Just giving links to manuscripts and books really doesn’t work well in an interactive forum where views are explained and discussed. Perhaps you just haven’t thought through your own view yet. That is understandable. However if you want to present that view here, you may need to take the time first to put you view down in writing so that your view can be questioned and tested. I think this is reasonable and is something that I try hard to follow myself. Does this make sense?