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The role of complementarity reasoning in religious development

โœ Scribed by K. Helmut Reich

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1991
Tongue
English
Weight
785 KB
Volume
1991
Category
Article
ISSN
1520-3247

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โœฆ Synopsis

Religion has been criticized for involving a logic of absurdity full of unresolvable contradictions, such as the following: (1) According to the Bible, God created the complete universe and all it contains in six days. From a scientific perspective the universe, though finite in age, may never have had a beginning as such. Human beings have in all likelihood emerged from other forms of animal life as the result of a long evolution, which also has brought about human self-consciousness. (2) Bad things happen to good and innocent people, such as when a child dies of cancer and when hundreds perish in an earthquake or a flood. Yet God is said to be allpowerful, just, and loving. (3) The Chalcedonian Definition (AD. 451) states that Jesus Christ is "truly God and truly man" and "is known in two natures [which exist] without confusion, without change, without division, without separation." Here are two illustrations of what religious contradiction means in people's lives: Corinne (twelve years old) said in an interview, "At school I have learned that the world came into its own with a big bang, and in religion they tell you that God created it. I just don't know what to make of it." When Helen learned from her doctor that she had multiple sclerosis and what that would entail until she died, totally diminished as a

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