You are obviously operating with the belief that truth can be reduced to certainty.
As to some things (this perhaps being one of those things) it cannot.Unlike a house of cards mentality (if you
remove one card from the structure then, the whole structure collapses) or,
if one thread begins to unravel then, the whole piece will come apart; Watts
can be correct (or incorrect) and trusting the Scriptures does not need to
be severely impaired.
I operate with the same belief
Lance - Surprise!!!
The reason you don't believe that
truth can be reduced to certainty is because you take men such as this
seriously.
Mr. Watts begins with a faulty
premise and so it is no surprise to see that his conclusions are all "out of
whack"
1. He begins his thesis for
the world being God's "environmental temple" with "greenie
priests" with Israel's king and temple....
However, God did not want Israel
to have a king (this was a human desire) that God tried to talk them
out of (see 1 Sam 8:10-22).
2. Neither did God want a house
(although Watts claims that kings always want palaces) any more than he
wanted a human king;
the house was another human idea that came from
David (see 1 Chronicles 17:3-10).
So Israel's temple is/was NOT
intended as a mini universe. The Tabernacle in the wilderness for which God
did give specific instructions was a picture of Christ and Solomon's Temple was built vaguely upon that
order without specific instructions from God and by using different
dimensions. If both Temple and Tabernacle symbolize anything (other
than Christ) it is regenerated man who consists of body (outer court),
soul (inner court), and spirit
(holy of holies) and so far as God is concerned regenerated men and
women are His temple today (1 Cor 3:17).
I can't see anything at all
scripturally that makes fallen mankind responsible for the
whole fallen world. The first Adam was to tend the
garden and when he fell from
grace the 2nd law of thermodynamics began to take over. Not to worry
though because the same God who
purifies us by fire will purify our surroundings by the same means whether
or not some (as Mr. Watts puts it) take "an elevator" out of here.
judyt
