From: allenroy (allenroy@peoplepc.com)
Date: Wed Oct 15 2003 - 02:53:09 EDT
Glenn Morton wrote:
> Glenn Morton wrote:
>
> > GRM: Allen, that is an interesting reaction since the
> > word immediately doesn't appear in Genesis' creation
> > account. If anyone is adding to what the Bible says, it
> > is those who hold that it all happened immediately,
> > lacking that word in the text. I don't argue that that
> > was the historical way of interpreting that passage, but
> > quite simply the verbage doesn't support it
> >
> A word need not actually be there for it to be implied. The speed
> of creating something is implied by the mode of creating. "God
> said" -- "and it was done" The completion of the creation
> correlates to the creative mode of speech. Are we to suppose that
> it took God millions of years to say
> "l..........e.............t..............................
> t........h........e.........r........e......................................
> b........e.............................
> l........i........g.........h.........t." Is God talking to
> himself? that is what your interp implies. The more natural
> interp, God said: "Let there be light" and it was done, (whcih was
> written by someone else, sounds more natural. Why would God tell
> himself it was done. Couldn't he see it?
>
This narrative,Genesis 1:1-2:4a, reads just like what one would expect Adam and
Eve to say as they relate what God told them as He visited in the Garden. It
was passed down from father to son, until it was eventually written down
(probably long before Moses' time).
Allen
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