An Evil Spirit from the Lord

public hermit said:

Well, that's a pitiful account. Are these "objects of destruction" created for that purpose?

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RDKirk said:

I think we can be sure Job had been taught a different creation account than Genesis, and still had that account in his mind as he came to know God.

And the same was true of the Philippian jailer.

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Fervent said:

Yeah, though my point wasn't about Job but about God referencing the Uritic myth of primordial chaos beasts that preceded creation. The myth in question is the myth of Yam, which God puts Himself in the place of Yam in defeating the chaos beasts and tweaks the myth by removing any sense of struggle or use of His and Leviathans body within the creative act. It's significant because it shows that God is not above relying on myths and human understanding to convey His message, albeit with tweaks to those myths.

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RDKirk said:

We wouldn't expect God to speak to pre-Bronze Age man in AI-Age man terminology.

Or rather, we wouldn't expect a pre-Bronze Age man to interpret a revelation from God in AI-Age man terminology.

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RDKirk said:

We wouldn't expect God to speak to pre-Bronze Age man in AI-Age man terminology.

Or rather, we wouldn't expect a pre-Bronze Age man to interpret a revelation from God in AI-Age man terminology.

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Fervent said:

Certainly not, but my point is a larger hermeneutical one about how to understand Biblical accounts of origins.

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