>From: "Jim Eisele" <jeisele@starpower.net>
> Day 4 is a mess. Either Moses lost his mind, or God knows something we
> don't.
Or, perhaps, just perhaps, the Genesis 1 narrative has essentially NOTHING
to do with the scientific particulars of the universe's formational history
and its chronology. Perhaps Moses (or a later editorial committee) was
engaging a menu of fundamental and important theological questions relevant
to that time and that place.
> Moses must have known that light came from the sun. What the heck
> is all this stuff doing on day 4?
First you have to find out what theological & cultural issues were on the
table at the time this text was written or placed in the canon.
Cordially,
Howard Van Till
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Feb 14 2002 - 19:27:53 EST