RE: [asa] Re: Slug

Hi Dave,
 
Leviticus isn't my concern. Hares do appear to chew. Maybe you like
this explanation from Strong's concordance: "probably an extinct animal
because no known hare chews its cud, exact meaning is unknown, and best
left untranslated as 'arnebeth.'" What animals went extinct in the last
three thousand years that used to chew its cud? Beats me. However, you
also wrote:
 
"May I suggest that, if you can't make it fit EVERY time, there's no
point in revising it any time?"
 
Why did Archer write a book at all? Why should any apologist strive to
close the gaps? As for the idea that the six days of Genesis need to be
rearranged, what Hebrew scholar supports that? You can't make Genesis
say that God "created" anything on the fourth day. It isn't in the
text. It's a day of proclamation or appointment or commissioning.
Nobody had clocks in those days. The sun, moon and stars provided
sources of information.
 
As an Air Force navigator I had to learn the stars for purposes of
airborne navigation. The entire nighttime sky appears to rotate almost
one degree every 24 hours from east to west making one complete rotation
every year. Constellations therefore are tied to the seasons.
Constellations told you when to plant and when to harvest. And Genesis
tells us it was God's providence. Then along come Conrad Hyers and Roy
Clouser, who couldn't hold Gleason Archer's lunch pail, and because they
don't read Hebrew make some outlandish proposal that the days of
creation are out of order.
 
Here's my suggestion, leave Hebrew translation to Hebrew scholars. They
don't all agree, but they don't argue about whether the days of creation
were dictated in "cosmogonic" or "teleological" order.
 
Dick Fischer
Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
 <http://www.genesisproclaimed.org> www.genesisproclaimed.org
 
 

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Received on Fri Jun 16 18:20:53 2006