Posted by Blue on June 03, 1998 at 21:08:22:
In Reply to: Who sets the definitions posted by DNA on June 03, 1998 at 09:45:56:
: IOW, if *you* say it, then it's teaching. If *I* say it, then it's opinion. How conveeeeenient!
Have you been reading what I wrote? If anyone says "The Bible is true" without proof, they aren't teaching. They are stating opinion. If I say Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" really happened, am I teaching? You don't teach by giving your opinion, you teach by displaying, comparing, and drawing conclusions from evidence, in the case of literature, from the literature itself, not commentary.
This BB, for instance, is everyone spouting opinions. You need to look at the literature, in this case the Bible, to actually teach/learn. If I could convince you to read, say, Genesis chapters 1 and 2 to see that the "two" creation stories actually describe the same event, I might help you learn, in that case by teaching yourself.
But me telling you they are the same event just states my opinion?
Is this clearer? I'm not trying to harrass.