Science and the Bible

DennisF · Sep 20, 2024

Diamond72 said:
There is NOTHING arbitrary about the Bible. There are just many levels of understanding. He Hasidic say up to 100 layers of meaning. Not everyone understands the mystery of how a day can represent a long period of time.

In sunday school we teach the literal Bible. Then when the students are old enough to go into the sanctuary the pastor teaching them the deeper meaning of those scriptures.

1corinthians 13 "11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways. 12Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.…

There are a lot of books and a lot of schools in Heaven. When people get there they are going to find out that they have a lot to learn.

We all have much to learn and can know that in this life. In the first century or two, the church at Alexandria, Egypt had a hermeneutical principle of finding multiple layers of meaning in the Bible, but what they meant by it was not that language has figures of speech - the nuances of language we learn as we grow up - but that its language itself was mystical, and this influence was Gnostic, a form of the Babylonian Mysteries that today we refer to as pagan. In contrast, the more biblical theological school at (Syrian) Antioch took the Bible more literally in that it believed the Bible meant what it said, though the usual rules of language applied. A metaphor was to be taken as a metaphor, but what was not a metaphor was not to be "metaphorized" mystically in a way that appealed the mystic's imagination.

Diamond72 · Sep 21, 2024

DennisF said:
the more biblical theological school at (Syrian) Antioch took the Bible more literally in that it believed the Bible meant what it said, though the usual rules of language applied. A metaphor was to be taken as a metaphor, but what was not a metaphor was not to be "metaphorized" mystically in a way that appealed the mystic's imagination.

Yes and that is true for the Bible itself. We see this with the dead sea scrolls. They are an example of how ancient texts can have multiple translations and interpretations. The variety of languages and scripts used in the Dead Sea Scrolls reflects the diverse linguistic landscape of the time. For instance, some texts are written in a more formal Hebrew, while others use Aramaic, which was the lingua franca of the Near East during that period 1. Additionally, there are a few texts in Greek, and even some fragments in Latin and Arabic.

The Bible is literal but we do have translation problems. For example the Bible says that Eve came from the side of Adam. But they translate that rib and this is just not accurate. The same with the fig leaf. They made clothing then the same way they do today. They take the fiber of the plants and spin it into thread and they weave the thread into clothing. Jesus had very special clothing and that is why they had to cast lots and it could not be divided.

I am reading a book on this now. Genesis and the Big Bang written over 30 years ago by Gerald Schroeder. We can see how much Science, the Bible and History all agree

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