RE: How was the sun created on the fourth day?
June 13, 2013 at 9:24 am
(This post was last modified: June 13, 2013 at 9:27 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 13, 2013 at 1:21 am)Pandas United Wrote: Most Christians, except for YEC'ers still living in the 19th century, don't take Genesis 1 to be a literal representation of the physical creation of the universe. After researching Genesis from a historical perspective, I see a story with incredible amounts of theological and existential meaning, not a literalistic account for the mechanics of creation.
Perhaps this is what you see because you dearly wish to see it such a way? The creation narrative is intractable from the overall narrative and is used as a reinforcing point for the "power of god" in the same way that leviathan is referenced. That neither the creation narrative nor levaithans are in any way accurate representations of reality is clear to us - but was not clear to the people of the time. Separating theology from cosmology makes sense -to you-...but you won't be able to establish that it made sense to those involved - meanwhile, it's very easy to demonstrate that the two were tied to the hip for the time period. They steadfastly believed in their cosmologies as -both- an issue of theology and mundane fact.
This is one of those cases where people have found it useful to back away from some claim...but the claim being so important as support of yet another claim - they simultaneously wish to retain it's integrity. No dice.
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