--- Dick Fischer <dickfischer@verizon.net> wrote:
>[snip] What had been handed down to the children of Israel as the
> history of their people beginning with Adam and Noah and Abraham in
> southern Mesopotamia was misinterpreted by the early church fathers as
> the story of the creation of the first human beings. Here we are nearly
> two thousand years later and the church still hasn't dealt with this
> obvious mistake.
>
This is perhaps a very important point. Can you point to references that
document that Genesis 1-11 "had been handed down to the children of Israel as
the history of their people beginning with Adam and Noah and Abraham in
southern Mesopotamia"?
Bill Hamilton
William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
248.652.4148 (home) 248.821.8156 (mobile)
"...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31
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