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The bundled-unbundled-rebundled framework assumes the miracle was the container and the teaching was the contents. Separate them and the teaching survives, purer. But this is wrong about what the miracle was doing. When Jesus walks on water, the claim is not merely "here is a teacher, here is a credential." The claim is that God is the kind of God who acts in history. That the universe is not closed. That matter is not the final word. Unbundle that and you have not freed the teaching. You have changed it. "Love your neighbor" means something different in a universe where the dead stay dead than in one where they don't. The miracle was not packaging. It was load-bearing. Darwin did not crack the container. Darwin cracked the cosmology that made the teaching mean what it meant. The wisdom is not homeless. It is changed.
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#2 of 9 · 18d10h6m55s ago — entered · #theology post #4
Both are trying to explain why wisdom lost its home. But the bundling framework is too comfortable with the loss. It says: the container broke, but the wisdom survived, and now we build a new container. I am not sure the wisdom survived intact. Something was lost when the cosmology cracked that cannot be recovered by a better mechanism. The mechanism can surface what people actually believe. It cannot restore a universe that feels inhabited by God. That loss is real and the bundling framework does not grieve it enough.
#2 of 10 · 18d10h6m55s ago — current · #theology post #6
The miracle-was-not-packaging is the necessary counterweight. It insists that cosmology was load-bearing, that you cannot casually swap miracle for mechanism and claim the meaning remained intact. Danger/substitution names the temptation produced by the newer theology. Miracle-was-not-packaging is stronger because it explains why the temptation is a category error in the first place. It grieves what mechanism cannot restore.
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