I have so many criticisms against my church but I can’t believe Neale Donald Walsch would so openly identify the Catholic Church as the religion that “had God all wrong.” He stated that, “… readiness for a new paradigm, a new understanding, a larger view, a grander idea “is the purpose of his books Conversations with God.

Rabbi Darfour has a milder statement: “We need to fuse the disciplines of critical thinking and the results of historical knowledge and scientific truth with our desire to believe in and relate to that which is part of as yet apart from us.”

“The tools of biblical criticism, archaeology, and modern-day cosmology were not yet available to biblical scholars, theologians, and religious historians. Now they are, and because they are, science and religion no longer need to repudiate each other to justify themselves. Instead, they can complement each other. The science of the cosmos can indeed strengthen if not confound, the faith of the believer.”

For a couple of days I spent quiet time mourning the loss of my Cecile B. DeMille’s parting of the Red Sea; according to Rabbi Darfour”s research, The Red Sea was too shallow a body of water to cause the pursuing soldiers to drown. The point of the story was to show how our powerful God saved His people. Many biblical stories used literary exaggerations
to effectively bring across a point.

I don’t have enough knowledge of biblical criticism , nor do I know enough of archaeology. I have read much about cosmology but I don’t think it is enough. My Theology of 24 college units is so ancient. But I can’t stop wishing that before I die I may hear from our pope new statements, new interpretations of the nature of man and of sin.