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Did I not bold, italicized and underlined "a bit" ?
A brief lesson for you : 'figurative language' means, among other things, when a word
is used to represent something other than the actual object. Hence, "lights" is used
to represent 'stars'. True, stars 'are' "lights" but they're much more than just "lights".
That was my only point and, as it is a subtle use of figurative language, I said "a bit".
Compare that with, say, the parables or with certain verses in Revelation - not 'a bit'.
OK Jorge. Let’s just take a look at a few more “bits” and see if they are figurative like you say
Gen. 1:14 is.
How about 1:6-8, which describes the creation of a physical structure, a “firmament,” that divides the waters above and below it if is taken literally – “as
GOD intended to communicate it to us”? Do you think there is a solid structure encasing the planet, and if not is it because it “clashes with your
chosen,
anti-scriptural beliefs”?
How about 1:16-17, where it describes the Sun, the Moon and stars being physically affixed to the solid firmament if it is taken literally – “as
GOD intended to communicate it to us”? Do you think that the Sun, Moon and stars are actually set into a solid firmament that encases the planet, and if not is it because it “clashes with your
chosen,
anti-scriptural beliefs”?
How about in verse 16 where the Moon is described as being a great light or lamp itself rather than merely reflecting the Sun’s light like a mirror if it is taken literally – “as
GOD intended to communicate it to us”? Do you think that the Moon gives off its own light
*, and if not is it because it “clashes with your
chosen,
anti-scriptural beliefs”?
How about in 1:26-27, where God states that we were made in His image, after His likeness, meaning we are physically modeled after God’s physical, fleshy body if it is taken literally – “as
GOD intended to communicate it to us”? Do you think we are made in God’s physical image, and if not is it because it “clashes with your
chosen,
anti-scriptural beliefs”?
Somehow I figure I’ll either receive silence or the typical rant about my being a quasi-Christian unable to comprehend basic English attempting to vilify you because of my rabid anti-YEC biases (or something like that). In either case, content-free.
* Apparently Bill Nye “the Science Guy” ran into flack for noting that
Moon only reflected light.
And let's not forget the 'biggie' here -- yom (day). That 'day' means a literal day in
Genesis 1-2 is far beyond any reasonable doubt (except, of course, to those that
have presupposed that it means something else). Hence, responding for the 31st
time, 'day' is clearly not figurative in Genesis 1-2. So why do you people not accept
that meaning of that word as GOD intended to communicate it to us? Could it be
because it clashes with your chosen, anti-scriptural beliefs?
The problem we have is that the very object we use to define or measure the length of a day, the Sun, wasn’t even in existence until the third day, which strongly suggests that the “days” mentioned are not standard 24 hour long days. It isn’t until 1:14 that read about the creation of the Sun and Moon to separate the day from the night and how they can be used as signs “for seasons, and
for days, and years” (
emphasis added).
This is a major clue that the psalmist and the author of II Peter knew what they were speaking of (
Ps. 90:4; cf.
II Pet. 3:8) when they explained that that with God “a thousand years is as one day, and one day is as a thousand years.” And they weren’t stating an algebraic equation: “x = 24 hours, y = 24 hours, ergo x = y” – they were saying that time doesn’t matter to God, or that a generic “long time” (figure of speech) is meant here, not a literal thousand years.
Keep in mind Jorge, the early Church Fathers nearly unanimously agreed that the “days” of
Genesis 1 didn’t represent literal 24-hour long days; though they couldn’t come to an agreement as to what they represented.
Lesson over ... bill is in the mail. Adios ....
Your two cents shall be deducted from your running tab that you have related to owing for broken irony meters.
P.S. Instead of arguing over everything I say just for the sake of arguing, do try
harder to get the point, will ya. The same to the rest of you buffoons here.
Jorge
Perhaps you can take time out for a second from your condemning all non-YECs as being somehow anti-Scriptural and for “inserting” things into the text and explain why you recognize that there was at least one Ice Age since there is no Biblical mention of one.
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