Re: Carnivores in Eden

Adrian Teo (AdrianTeo@mailhost.net)
Thu, 03 Apr 1997 21:29:06 -0800

Russell T. Cannon wrote:
>
> Steve,
>
> You quoted the verse from Genesis 1:30:
>
> > And to every beast of the earth, and to every
> > fowl of the air, and to every thing that
> > creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is
> > life, I have given every green herb for meat:
> > and it was so.
>
> My view is that this is limited to the animals living in the Garden.
> The problem is in the Hebrew word translated earth. In Hebrew, the word
> eretz can be used to refer to plots of land that are as small as a
> little garden or vineyard or as large as the entire globe of the earth.

This interpretation of the Hebrew word certainly makes the flood account
more in line with the scientific evidence i.e. a local flood rather than
a global flood.

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