Re: [asa] Does ASA believe in Adam and Eve?

For Jack:

Not a big assumption. Can anyone without an ax to grind read II Peter 3:1-10 & think that "the present heavens and earth" and "the earth and everything that is done on it" refers to just a limited part of the earth? (That's a rhetorical question.)

For David:

Sodom & Gomorrah are given in 2:6 as an example of God's judgment upon evil, as is the flood in the preceding verse. In Chapter 3 the flood is not spoken of as judgment but as a proof that the world can be brought to an end.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Jack
  To: George Murphy ; Dick Fischer ; ASA
  Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 6:25 AM
  Subject: Re: [asa] Does ASA believe in Adam and Eve?

  You are, however, making the assumption that the destruction of the "heavens and earth" by fire in II Peter 3:7 is referring to a conflagration affecting the whole world.
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: David Opderbeck
  To: George Murphy
  Cc: Dick Fischer ; ASA
  Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:03 AM
  Subject: Re: [asa] Does ASA believe in Adam and Eve?

  To note just one point, the way in which II Peter 3:5-7 uses the story of the flood to argue for the possibility of the destruction of "the present heavens and earth" makes no sense if the writer of II Peter did not think of the flood as affecting the whole world.
   
  But Peter uses the destruction of Sodom in the very same context in chapter 2, which obviously is not global. Petelike Jesus, uses Sodom and the flood as types of the final judgment. As types, neither need be literally as extensive as the final judgment.

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Received on Thu Mar 29 08:27:40 2007