[Fwd: Natural Theology, Unguided Processes and Apologetics]
George Andrews (andrewsg@letu.edu)
Thu, 18 Sep 1997 09:17:41 -0500
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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 17:52:55 -0500
From: George Andrews
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Pattle Pun wrote:
> Creation ex nihilo is based on the independent sentence, as agreed
> upon by
> most conservative Hebrew scholars of Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning
> God
> created heavens and earth", not from preexisting matters as Plato's
> Timaeus.
What do you think of Speiser's translation of Gen. 1:1 found in The
Anchor Bible where he translates the text:
"When God set about to create heaven and earth - the world being
then a formless waste, with darkness over the seas and only an awesome
wind sweeping over the water - God said, 'Let there be light'?"
Thus he claims Gen. 1:1 is a dependent clause with verse 2 being a
parenthetic clause as is the structure of the Babylonian Creation Epic,
or Enuma elish. He than states that "the present (his) interpretation
precludes the view that the creation accounts in Genesis say nothing
about coexistent matter." And finally, "...the biblical writers repeat
the Babylonian formulation, perhaps without full awareness of the
theological and philosophical implications."
George
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