Fundamentalism

Press, 28 July 1986, Page 24

Fundamentalism

Sir, — Referring to Professor Barr’s statement (July 15) that Bible statements concerning Christ’s Resurrection are approximate, and therefore open to error and contradiction, another professor, a German, wrote in the Encyclopdaela Britannica, published in 1911, that “the pos-. sibility of a Jewish Empire ever being established in the Middle East is extremely remote.” The Bible foretold that the people of Israel would again be settled in the Promised Land, never to be uprooted again. This professor’s forecast was proved false, but, the Bible’s true, when in 1948' Israel was established as a nation. To some, the physical Ressurrection of the Israelite Jesus seems as remote as the physical ressurrection of the nation of Israel. Both were biblically forecast, and both have' come to pass. — Yours, etc.,

P. BURROWES. July 23, 1986.

Sir,—ln spite of glaring inconsistencies and lack of conclusive proof, the theory of evolution receives little criticism in these columns; yet some correspondents keep hammering the violence and human frailties recorded in the Old Testament without even trying to understand the underlying reasons which are given. The great carnage and misery caused by religious wars cannot be attributed to our Creator. Since our first two ancestors chose to disobey, man has been permitted for a period to learn by choosing his own way. Little is known about the second half of the century after Christ except that a church emerged with a gospel about Christ, but not of Christ. None of us wants to obey laws instituted for our own good; but archaeological records and prophecies fulfilled to the letter proclaim

the truth of a Bible inspired by a Creator in whose image we are His most delicate creation.— Yours, etc., TED MULCOCK. July 25, 1986.