Re: concordance & genesis (edited)

Peter wrote,

> But the core of this argument of mine was not even the beliefs of the
> ancients, but that God probably didn't have much difficulty persuading a
> writing prophet to not hook his text to a flat-earth worldview, even if,
> for discussion's sake, he would have held it, and the possibility that
> God indeed had a reason for doing so and did it.
>
>

You were more accurate in an earlier post when you said God _would_ not have
much difficulty persuading a writing prophet to not hook his text to a
flat-earth worldview. You can't say "didn't" because the evidence is that he did hook
his text to a flat-earth worldview (actually worldpicture), and that more
than once. I will not lay out all of the evidence here, as it is already laid out
in my paper, "The geographical meaning of 'earth' and 'seas' in Gen 1:10" in
the Westminster Theological Journal 59 (1997) 231-55, which you can read if
and when you want to see the evidence.

Paul
Received on Tue Dec 23 01:35:29 2003