RE: [asa] A question on Genesis

Hi Don, you wrote:

>Dick is incorrect in implying that that is the only alternative. Another

possibility is that the writer of Genesis 11 is using a story to say

something quite profound about human rebellion against God, echoing what

is written in earlier chapters of Genesis.<

I think the writer is doing exactly that, Don, saying something profound
about rebellion against God. I'm just saying he is relating a true story
not one that is fictitious. Completely fabricated tales might have a moral
point or two.

Dick Fischer, GPA president

Genesis Proclaimed Association

"Finding Harmony in Bible, Science and History"

www.genesisproclaimed.org <http://www.genesisproclaimed.org/>

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of Don Nield
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 6:45 PM
To: Dick Fischer
Cc: 'George Murphy'; ASA
Subject: Re: [asa] A question on Genesis

Dick Fischer wrote:

>

> Dear George:

>

> I didn't get into this to perpetuate ignorance and the failed exegesis

> by those who either lacked the means or couldn't bother to get their

> facts straight. When the KJV translators used "slime" for mortar,

> subsequent translations corrected that to "tar" or "bitumen" as a

> better translation of the Hebrew word /khay-mawr' - /it wasn't because

> they inspected any ziggurats in Mesopotamia, it was simply a better

> rending of the word. But they did get it right.

>

> Yet in Gen. 11:1 the "whole world" or the "whole earth" had one

> language according to the NIV, RSV, ASV, etc. There isn't any way for

> that to be possible. So if all these translations are correct then it

> is the writer who can't get his facts straight. It's the poor, dumb,

> ignorant writer of Genesis who has no clue about anything. If you're

> happy with that, stay with that.

>

Dick is incorrect in implying that that is the only alternative. Another

possibility is that the writer of Genesis 11 is using a story to say

something quite profound about human rebellion against God, echoing what

is written in earlier chapters of Genesis.

Don N

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