A few weeks ago I wrote about Andy Stanley’s assertion that the Genesis account of Adam and Eve is history, not
just spiritually valuable mythology. For Andy, it is how Jesus spoke about
Adam and Eve that is definitive.
I agree with him on at least
two things: first, that Genesis is historical, and second, that the words
of Christ are of vital importance to the believer. They are there to be pored
over, memorized, analyzed with all the faculties God has given us, meditated
upon and lived out wherever they apply to our lives.
Good so far. And then, me being me, I have
to lob a monkey wrench into the machinery.