Re: [asa] Re: Slug

Dick wrote,
<<There is nothing in the Hebrew that should cause us to believe that God "created" the heavenly bodies on Day Four. The creation of "heaven" which is everything in it, sun moon and stars included, was on Day One.
 Quoting Gleason Archer:
Verse 16 should not be understood as indicating the creation of the heavenly
bodies for the first time on the fourth creative day; rather it informs us that
the sun, moon, and stars created on Day One as the source of light had been
placed in their appointed places by God with a view to their eventually
functioning as indicators of time ('signs, seasons, days, years') to terrestrial
observers. The Hebrew verb 'wayya 'as' in v. 16 should better be rendered
'Now [God] had made the two great luminaries, etc.,' rather than as simple
past tense, [God] made. - Gleason Archer, Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, 62>>.

Archer's book shows he has a distinct bias, so I don't think this is good documentation. There is a very strong consensus of evangelical OT scholars that the fourth day is about the CREATION of the sun, moon and stars, not the concordist rewrite. See the archives at http://www.asa3.org:16080/archive/ASA/200206/0033.html<http://www.asa3.org:16080/archive/ASA/200206/0033.html>

Paul

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Received on Sat Jun 17 00:19:25 2006