Don't these people read the bible?

Heh, I guess the subject of this post is a little harsh and generally people who do read the bible manage to come up with radically different interpretations of it. Is this because God's spirit is not working in us; do we not allow it to work in us; do we go looking for a certain thing and find it, whether it was supposed to be there or not; do we not ask for God's wisdom and understand and true meaning? Who knows?

These thoughts initially come to mind because of this week's lecture and Charles Birch:

"Birch sees the DNA molecule as having “internal relations”. He sees our own consciousness, the ability to reflect on the world around us, as having evolved. The evolutionist has a problem with conscious being evolving from non-conscious ones, but Birch removes that problem by suggesting that all matter has consciousness of a kind. “Things that feel are made of things that feel”. All things, ranging from electrons up to people, have some degree of responsiveness and freedom, freedom to affect their environment. So God’s love is extended to all creation."

I feel that the bible specifically says, or at least fairly conclusively implies that humans were made to be in relationship with God, that he made us his people and gave us dominion over the world under him. Not necessarily that it is only us that gets minds, but it is only us that is reallysubject to God's love. I suppose I am more with Francis Schaeffer on this one.

"Psalm 104:24: “O Lord how many are thy works! In wisdom thou hast made them all; the earth is full of thy possessions.” So our function is to use them and enjoy them, to wonder at their beauty and the intricacies of their design. But we do not own them. We are God’s stewards in His garden... It is not God who has done a lousy job (as the modernists said at the beginning) but we have done a lousy job in the way we have lived our lives and in the way we have cared for God’s world."

Amen to that.