At 11:58 PM 15/06/02 -0400, MikeSatterlee@cs.com wrote:
>Jim,
>
>I could provide you with clear answers to all of your questions. But I see no
>point in doing so, since you have not bothered to respond to much of what I
>have already written. As I pointed out earlier, the apostle Paul's words in
>Gal. 3:16,17 clearly show that he understood the 430 years to have begun when
>Abraham entered Canaan,
I did not read anything about entering Canaan in those verses, nor anything
about 430 years. Your "clearly" needs a lot more explaining.
>not when his descendants entered Egypt as you
>maintain. However, rather than admit Paul's words clearly show that your
>understanding of Ex. 12:40 must be in error you have simply ignored this
>matter.
I will not talk about numbers in the Bible again, but I must say, that your
reading of the Bible is strange. In my Bible it simply stated that the
Israelites were 430 years in Egypt. It did not say when the counting
started: when Joseph came there, or when Jacob finally arrived, or . .
.maybe the reason for saying it was something completely different, and had
nothing to do with our arithmetics, but only with God's faithfulness.
>This fact, along with the fact that you admit that you have absolutely no
>idea what period of time the 390 years of Ezek. 4:1-5 refers to, tells me
I don't know how the 390 days relate to your subject, but I honestly think,
that your playing games with biblical numbers forgets that in old Israel
numbers had another function than they have in modern, capitalist America,
where everything is to be counted exactly. We talked about this before,
and I do not want to start all over again, only this:
Do not let the Good News of Christ's rule over us in the present time be
destructed by talking about the meaning of numbers which we cannot understand.
Jan de K.
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