(June 25, 2014 at 11:37 pm)Jenny A Wrote:here's are some thoughts: 1) the biblical Hebrew vocabulary has only about 3,000 words. consequently, the interpretation dependents on grammar, sentence structure, and context since there are multiple literal definitions of common usages. the frame of reference of ancient people is how words and phases such as 'the entire heavens', 'face of the earth' are correctly interpreted. using our modern day global perspective wouldn't give the correct meaning.(June 25, 2014 at 10:54 pm)snowtracks Wrote: you're right that the bible doesn't described a worldwide flood.Really? Genesis appears to describe a world wide flood to me.
Quote:And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life on the seventeenth day of the second month--on that day all the springs of the great deep bust forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened, and rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights. . . .The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth and all the high mountains under the entire heavens weer covered. The water rose and covered the mountains to a depth of twenty feet. Everything living that moved on the earth perished--birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died . Everything on the face of the earth was wiped out, men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the face of the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.Genesis 7:11-23
2) then there are some nuttie Christian insisting on the word 'world' meaning entire surface of the earth, and 'day' always meaning 24 hours to confuse the issue.
Atheist Credo: A universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.