Re: The Eight of the Ark

David Opderbeck wrote

This seems odd to me, since this person would say that 2 Peter 3:6 and its
context don't require that the flood was geographically global. If that's so,
I'm not sure why scholars applying the same literal-historical-grammatical
hermeneutic to both passages should be dogmatic about 2 Peter 2:5, which could
be read along with the more limited understanding of "cosmos" in 2 Peter 3:6 to
mean that of the people affected by the flood, only eight were saved.

I think the insistence that the flood was anthropologically universal comes
from the view that original sin is passed on by conception. Thus humans must be
descended from Adam to inherit Adam's sin. I think this is one of the big
issues for Glenn's target audience: fundamentalists. As usual, I'd appreciate
comments, especially if I'm wrong.

Bill Hamilton
William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
586.986.1474 (work) 248.652.4148 (home) 248.303.8651 (mobile)
"...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31

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Received on Fri Mar 24 15:06:28 2006