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The same. The point of these stories is what matters, not if it literally happened or not.What do you think to the story of Jonah or the talking donkey ?
Some main points of the book I find interesting:What do you think to the story of Jonah or the talking donkey ?
Some main points of the book I find interesting:
...There is a noticeable universalist tendency against Jewish intolerance, which misinterprets the teaching about the election of God's people.
...The purpose of the book is apparently religious and educational [3,10; 4.1 Him]. In the first part, God's omnipotence is shown, which can force a person to do His will. You will not escape God's sight either by suicide or in the underworld under the seabed! In the second part, God's is depicted the benevolence which forgives the repentant sinner, even if he were a heathen. It is therefore not surprising that the book was read on the great day of atonement every year.
The Jews saw it not only as a message about God's willingness to forgive, but also a symbol of their nation: Jonah is a representative of a nation that was sent by God into the world to prophesy to the Gentiles. When Israel did not fulfill his task, he was swallowed up by Babylon, not to be destroyed, but to give him an opportunity to repent [see Jer 51,34,44!]
In late Judaism, legends accumulated around J. For example, J. was considered the resurrected son of the widow of Sarepta, and J.'s reluctance to go to the Gentiles is interpreted in such a way that he wanted to prevent God from punishing the unrepentant Israel after He would see the repentance of even Gentiles.
The book of J. is the only writing of the OT, which explicitly encourages a mission among the Gentiles. But this is based on the assumption that Nineveh really refers to a pagan region. According to some interpreters, it is rather a cover name for Jerusalem.
(Biblický slovník, Adolf Novotný)
The Bible was not written to explain creation, it was written to proclaim the God who created.
Hasn't anyone told you it's not a science textbook?
The Bible tells us that God created. It doesn't say what shape the earth is.-
The Bible gives a description of what God created and what God wants us to know about His creation.
Which chapter and verse says that?The Bible gives a description of what God created and what God wants us to know about His creation.
The Bible tells us that God created. It doesn't say what shape the earth is.
You said the Bible tells us you what God wants us to know about creation - he doesn't tell us that the earth is flat. It's not a Biblical teaching; end of.
We agree that Genesis 1 describes creation in terms of ancient Middle Eastern cosmology. That has been our argument all along.-
Biblical christian science believers, should at least be like Mr Seely. Who admits, even thought he does not actually believe this himself. That the earth described in The Bible as being God's creation is a flat and stationary earth.
At least he is honest and does admit that a flat and stationary is what The Bible describes as God's creation, but he just does not believe this.
As he opens his article with this paragraph.
When a biblical text is interpreted outside of its historical context, it is often unconsciously interpreted in terms of the reader's own culture, time and beliefs. This has happened more than once to Genesis 1: To avoid distorting Genesis 1 in this way, the serious exegete will insist upon placing this chapter within its own historical context. When we do this, the meaning of "earth" and "seas" in Gen 1:10 is found to be quite different from the modern western notions.
https://www.terre-plate.org/library/Book Collection/Seely_EarthSeas_WTJ.pdf
Biblical christian science believers, should at least be like Mr Seely. Who admits, even thought he does not actually believe this himself. That the earth described in The Bible as being God's creation is a flat and stationary earth.
At least he is honest...
God does not tell us that. The author of Genesis tells us that. Genesis was not dictated by God.But God does tell us that he set two great lights & all the stars in the firmament.
Which has nothing to do with the shape of the earth.But God does tell us that he set two great lights & all the stars in the firmament.
But God does tell us that he set two great lights & all the stars in the firmament.
Which has nothing to do with the shape of the earth.
Flat earth belief - not Biblical.
Only that someone pulled the theory out from where the sun don't shine.Does anyone understand the black sun theory & the underworld
Not at all.No - But it has every thing to do with the earth supposedly orbiting the sun.
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