ANE cosmology; was : A profound disturbance found in Yak butter.

From: Don Nield <d.nield@auckland.ac.nz>
Date: Fri Jun 02 2006 - 19:39:01 EDT

glennmorton@entouch.net wrote:

> You say you are a fellow accomodationalist, but you are delusional.
> Since I don’t believe that the ANE cosomology was a reasonable thing
> for a truthful god to allow into his supposed communication to man at
> any time in history, I am NOT a accommodationalist. I think if God
> communicated to mankind such a view of cosmology, then God is a liar.
> And therein lies the conundrum I am faced with. I won’t say it is
> theologically true as you are want to do.
>

Glenn -- please explain why ANE cosmology in the Old Testament (which is
a collection of ANE writings) is unacceptable to you. It seems to me
that one should *expect* ANE cosmology in an ANE document.
Don
Received on Fri Jun 2 19:39:36 2006

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