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Re: Interesting contradiction in Genesis...
Chris Woodward (woodward@luna.ec.usf.edu.)
26 Jan 1995 19:36:25 GMT
In article <3g7cf7$6n5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> sftwrebuff@aol.com (SftwreBuff) writes:
>Chris Woodward (PSY) (woodward@luna.ec.usf.edu.) wrote:
>
>> If God didn't create the sun until day 4, then how did He keep
>> track of days 1-3 (since a literal day was measured by the sun)?
>
>One of the common mistakes that we English-speakers make when translating
>anything is to assume that idioms and sayings have the same meaning in all
>languages. For instance, to say that you are hot or cold means that your
>ambient body tempurature is higher or lower than is comfortable. However,
>to translate this literally into German would be a statement to the hearer
>about your sexual readiness!
>
>In Genesis, Moses saw that God performed a certain amount of labor, or
>perhaps a type of labor. Then, having finished that, God paused and moved
>on to something else. For lack of a better way of explaining this, Moses
>interpreted these breaks as "days". So, in essense, what we read as days,
>was merely seven different work periods, not literal days.
>
>Keep questioning, though. It's the best way to expand your knowledge.
>
Actually, I already knew that. I was trolling to see who would answer...
hoping to snare a YEC. There are other things that put Moses' author-
ship of the Pentateuch in doubt, not the least of which is that it con-
tains an account of Moses' own death...
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[ Chris Woodard, M.A. ]
[ Anheuser-Busch Chair of Computational Theology ]
[ University of Ediacara ]
[ "Open-mindedness is not synonymous with blind gullibility." ]
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