Re: [asa] Noah's Ark- the debate over floods... and biblical interpretation

Dave,
You're assuming that the message was given between the time of
preparation for the Flood and the time of the earliest ziggurats. If it
is a revelation based on an earlier mythology, the audience came much
later. Boiled down to its simplest, the message was that God sets the
rules and punishes infractions, given no earlier than to Abram and
probably later. Bernie's questions are strictly relevant.
Dave (ASA)

On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:13:45 -0400 Dave Wallace
<wmdavid.wallace@gmail.com> writes:
> Dehler, Bernie wrote:
> >
> > Dick:
> > “It was to terminate evil doers. Do you think a king and his
> family
> > could just slip out of town unnoticed?”
> >
> > You think all the evil doers were concentrated. That sounds too
> > far-fetched to me. I think they spread out all over the globe-
> aren’t
> > all people evil? Even God said that… they were all evil… not just
> the
> > locals.
> >
> > It sounds to me like you have your theology then shape the
> Scripture
> > to meet it- eisigesis. It is a local flood. How long? The Bible
> says,
> > but ignore that part. How high? The Bible says, but diminish it
> > (mountains = hills). What was on the ark? The Bible says (all
> animal
> > species with the aim to preserve them), but ignore that part.
> >
> > To me, it seems so straight-forward to recognize and accept what
> the
> > Bible says, then understand it as adapting myth for theological
> > purposes… just as Easter and Christmas were adapted from pagan
> things
> > to give new Christian meaning to them.
> >
> > …Bernie
> >
> So Bernie what was the theological purpose, from Noah through to the
>
> tower of Babel. Empty threats of punishments soon get ignored.
>
> Dave W
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