(July 19, 2014 at 12:01 am)snowtracks Wrote: context is the key: from the perspective of the authors and audience, the 'world' meant people, the land meant the ground under the feet stretching from horizon to horizon. from the text before the 1st day the earth's surface was completely covered with water. later reads after the mountains rose and the valleys sank down, a boundary was established and the waters would never again return to cover them. when the apostle peter later comment on the genesis flood he said that by the waters of that time were a judgment that came from God upon all the ungodly (reprobation plagued the pre-flood society - reprobates according to peter not only do evil, the also cheer on others to do evil, and enjoy recruiting others to live as they do). that was the extent of it. there are biblical geographical makers that place the flood in the persian gulf, mesopotamia area which is near the location of eden.
What was it you were saying earlier about Dawkins? Oh, yes...
" dawkins had his chance, one doesn't get the luxury of going back to the office and backtracking and saying this is what was meant."
By that logic, doesn't god also get the one chance, and you can't clarify now, no matter how willful the misunderstandings being employed? Or is it just people you don't agree with that have to deal with your ridiculous stipulations?

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