What specific passages are you referring to? I read 6:9, but you must mean
from the 6th through the ninth chapters.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
and do not rely on your own insight.. Pr. 3:5
Ron Chitwood
chitw@flash.net
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> From: Glenn R. Morton <grmorton@waymark.net>
> To: Ron Chitwood <chitw@flash.net>; EVOLUTION@calvin.edu
> Subject: Re: Glenn wrote:
> Date: Wednesday, May 27, 1998 7:41 PM
>
> At 08:30 AM 5/27/98 -0500, Ron Chitwood wrote:
> >>>>>This means that erets, means a local region and the flood thus
occurred
> >NOT
> >on the whole planet but only on some region of the earth. whole land
does
> >not mean planet earth. Otherwise, tell me what planet God showed
Abraham
> >to go to<<<
> >
> >Whoa, erets can mean either. Depends on the context. 'earth' as used
in
> >Genesis 1:2 is also translated from 'erets .
>
> How do you determine the context of a word the very first time it is
used?
>
> If I say "I created a uytrynhm" tell me what 'uytrynhm' means?
>
> Consider the following sentences.
> The uytrynhm is pretty.
>
> The uytrynhm takes time to dry.
> If the uytrynhm lasts for a 100 years it will need restoration by an
expert
> because the colors will have dimmed.
>
> The Kimbel art gallery is going to display many of my uytrnhms next week.
>
> You can only tell what it is by looking at the context. The first case
> doesn't tell you much. The others tell you a bit more. the last gives
it
> away.
>
> EVERY example of 'eretz between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 12:1 are either
> demonstrably LOCAL regions such as land or country or they are
> indeterminant. the indeterminant useages are in Genesis 1 and Genesis
6-9
> which can be translated either way. But the majority of uses refer to
> local regions and so if you suddenly want to make eretz mean the entire
> planet, find a similar usage somewhere else where it is UNQUESTIONAbLY
> PLANET EARTH.
>
> glenn
>
> Adam, Apes and Anthropology
> Foundation, Fall and Flood
> & lots of creation/evolution information
> http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm