otseng wrote: ↑Sun Jul 24, 2022 7:02 pm Another reason we should doubt the skeptics’ argument that the Biblical authors were claiming the universe is actually a snow dome is the skeptics have made similar claims that the church, in particular during the Middle ages, believed the earth was flat, which in reality is a …
Diogenes wrote: ↑Sun Jul 24, 2022 7:31 pm Why would a single author include two contradictory versions of the creation story? It is presenting two different perspectives of the same event. We see parallelism throughout the Bible where one account of something is told and then repeated again in another way. We see this done …
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Goat wrote: ↑Sat Jul 23, 2022 3:45 pmYou also have to point to evidence, and then show WHY that data is evidence for your proposition. Just pointing to data, and saying it is evidence of xyz without convergence of evidence and a testable model doesn’t make that data evidence of any specific proposition. Of course. …
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When the authors of the Bible describes something, it is not necessarily stating things are literally that way, but rather simply describing things as how they observe it. Much of the Bible comes to us with language that describes the way things appear to the naked eye. The language used is descriptive of the ways …
Diogenes wrote: ↑Tue Jul 19, 2022 11:04 pm Metaphors are based upon a reference to reality. The original authors, like everyone else of their era except the Greeks around 500 BCE, believed the Earth was a disk. The Genesis story reflects this belief. They actually believed the Earth was flat. A metaphor is not literally …
Diogenes wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 10:24 pm It is easy, easy as pie; a flat pie with a dome over it. Jewish scholars understand the metaphorical or literary nature of these stories. They are not, therefore, motivated to stretch the meanings of the original to fit some apologist’s need. Yes, I agree it is …
TRANSPONDER wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 10:47 am Can you show that the Septuagint was used by Jews? “Greek scriptures were in wide use during the Second Temple period, because few people could read Hebrew at that time. The text of the Greek Old Testament is quoted more often than the original Hebrew Bible text …
Diogenes wrote: ↑Sun Jul 17, 2022 12:50 am ‘The Church’ believed the Bible described the Earth as a flat disk for Centuries, I’m not so sure. At the time of the Aristotelian system, people believed in a spherical Earth, which was hundreds of years before the church came about. In the fully developed Aristotelian system, …
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Let’s look closer at what the Bible says about the firmament. Gen 1:6-8 (KJV) 6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which [were] under the firmament from the …
Jewish cosmology was not something entirely novel, but it had some similarities to ANE cosmologies. Most students of the Bible are probably aware that the Old Testament authors followed the cosmological model used in Mesopotamia and Egypt. https://isthatinthebible.wordpress.com/ … -theology/ It is not likely their portrayal of the universe was attempting to only make metaphysical …