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Meh. The Lord of the Rings used to be the preserve of nerds. Now it's been swallowed up by the terrible homogenization of pop culture.^^ Hooray for engaging with contemporary culture!
Meh. The Lord of the Rings used to be the preserve of nerds. Now it's been swallowed up by the terrible homogenization of pop culture.
For the reason Assyrian gave, I would disagree with the use of the pluperfect.
For the rest of the argument, I would agree that viewing chapter 2 in light of chapter 1, there is logical sense in what he is saying. It is a perfectly sensible way to reconcile the different orders.
But logical sense is still not literal sense.
A reconciliation of a contradiction is an admission that literally there is a contradiction. Otherwise there would be no need of a reconciliation.
Furthermore it is an admission that the resolution of the contradiction requires understanding at least one pole of the contradiction non-literally.
Which raises the question: which pole of the contradiction is to be de-literalised? Why this one and not the other?
And:
Why not de-literalise both?
This discussion brings to my remembrance very vividly why I stopped posting on these forums for nearly half a year. Debate is healthy and good, but the content of these forums is often of the most despicable and shameful content; that, my friends, isn't even taking into consideration that we are proposing ourselves as Christians.
I'm not convinced there are two creation accounts, and not convinced that there is any reconciling necessary. Arguing against a problem I don't think even exists is difficult, would you not agree?
I will excuse myself from this bickering now. Carry on if you must, but at least pretend to be Christian when you do it.
As I understand it, sequence is generally evidence of either narrative or poetic intent.
OK. I take it that is what you mean by "pole".
That is fine. That means you need some 'splainin. Whenever you need some 'splainin, your case for a narrative surface text is going to be less obvious and open to argument.
In Gen 2:2-2:3, you have a conclusion of the seven day cycle, ending with a period of rest. Further, you have a conceptual boundary established by an announced purpose: God rested and similarly sanctified the seventh day.
The point is, the seven day narrative has a logical organization based on purpose and a natural conclusion.
There is no way that we can get around conceding that purpose is an organizing principal for narrative.
Gen. 2:4 is clearly a new thesis or subthesis. "These are the generations...." There is a new purpose. The text self-consciously announces a new beginning for the narrative. Must that necessarily be a new or different story by a new writer?
The only thing however I see that can possibly require that conclusion is the conviction that its all myth anyway because couldn't have done it in 7 days.
The text itself just doesn't supply that.
Gen. 2:4 clearly begins an exposition of how it was that things grew.
"Narrative" and "poetic" are not mutually exclusive. Have you never read "narrative poems"? So, it is not an either-or intent.
You know what I mean.
No, by "pole" in this context, I meant the two options given us by the contradiction in sequence, if we understand them both to be--as they appear to be--chronological sequences.
I thought I said that.
Exactly. 'splainin is what we do when we decide that one or both sequences is not what it literally appears to be: a chronological sequence.
I thought i said that.
Oh, wow, not at all! The question of what is possible doesn't enter into it at all.
Somehow or other Fury must look out side the text to come to his conclusion. I just can't see how the text can possibly "compel" his conclusion. I see how you can argue it "allows" his conclusion, but that makes it clear that we are working the realm of man's logic and not necessarily the intent of the author (God). Begging the question, which is acknowledged.
Harry Potter as a Christ figure next? Or is it too soon?
I thought i said that.
You did. Hence my response affirming what you said.
Somehow or other Fury must look out side the text to come to his conclusion. I just can't see how the text can possibly "compel" his conclusion.
Which conclusion are you talking about?
He has said nothing about any impossibility of creation in 7 days.
The contradiction in the text is in the text, not outside it. It has long been a focus of explanations aimed at a reconciliation of the apparent contradiction.
That seems to leave the reference to the documentary thesis. But this too is based on the text, though in a different way than you are thinking of.
This, I expect, is where your difficulty lies. "Text" includes much more than a sequence of words conveying information. A text has structure. It has the characteristics of a genre. It includes imagery, motifs, and themes. It uses a characteristic language, both in its social (historical) form and in the idiosyncratic individual use of its resources by the author.
These are all grist for the mill of literary and linguistic analysis. And it is in this kind of reading of the text that some of us find the documentary thesis compelling. But please realize that this is all still a reading of the text and does not require going outside the text.
I see how you can argue it "allows" his conclusion, but that makes it clear that we are working the realm of man's logic and not necessarily the intent of the author (God).
All exegesis and all hermeneutical approaches, including yours, "work the realm of man's [sic] logic" in pursuit of the author's intent and of God's intent.
How else do you come to an understanding of what the intent is?
Gen. 2:4 clearly begins an exposition of how it was that things grew. It is about how God took what he had created and caused their generation or growth.
You would have thought it would be natural for the land to be barren if it was, y'know, 72-hours-old spanking new. Why did the author feel like he had to invoke the fact that there were no famers as an explanation for barrenness?
Things can obviously be taken too far, but since Paul chose to quote greek poetry to the greeks I don't see a problem.Assyrian said:Harry Potter as a Christ figure next? Or is it too soon?
The answer is, you are looking at a careless and inaccurate translation.
In the Hebrew language, context determines tense. Many translations of the bible try for "word for word" translation, and "miss" such things as contextual tense.
In Genesis 1, the order is laid out to show that Adam and Eve were formed first.
In Genesis 2,the word that your bible has translated as will, implying future tense, is properly translated as "had formed," or "having formed," both past tense.
Jews, familiar with Hebrew, and reading Hebrew, never saw a contradicition because they understood this about tense.
People translating from Hebrew, to Latin, to English are much more likely to make the "will" vs "having" error.
People translating straight from Hebrew to English dont' make that error.
I urge Creationists to explain to me how they can justify two completely different accounts of creation.
First creation story - Genesis 1:1-2:4a
Second creation story - Genesis 2:4b-25
In the first creation story birds and sea creatures are made on the fifth day. Land animals are made first on the sixth day, then Human beings.
In the second creation story God forms man from the dust and decides he needs a helper so he forms all of the animals and brings them to Adam.
Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him." Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.
Genesis 2:18-19 (NASB)
When were animals created? Before or after humans?
You are implying a historical sequence that the text doesn't supply. The text supplies a sequence of presentation only. More than that is only implied.
I think the onus remains with you for the reasons cited above.
You are implying a historical sequence that the text doesn't supply. The text supplies a sequence of presentation only. More than that is only implied.
We have talked amply about language and purpose and organizing principles. Clearly and without any reasonable doubt, sequence may imply a temporal relationship, but sequence alone cannot require that in its surface text. In Gen. 1, the sequence is augmented by parallel construction and continuity of purpose or intent. And it says, "on day one." (Or at least King James does)
What you imply is not crazy, but it is also not required. I suggest you get clear about the difference between an implied meaning and the surface text. One is arguable, the other isn't.
Purpose is evident in the images used. "Out of the ground" is evidently quite distinct from "out of man". You say its a different story. There is a good case to be made for, same story, different purpose.
And why are you using Jerome or Latin terms to address a Hebrew tense? "[SIZE=-1]Those who believe that the stars were formed before Day 4 make a point from Hebrew syntax. Hebrew does not have a specific way of communicating a pluperfect ..." http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pluperfect+hebrew&btnG=Google+Search[/SIZE]
I do have a question. I like to use word for word from the Hebrew and the break between vs 3 and 4 is awkward here. Take out the verse number 4 and it would say "to make these generations". Has this been brought up yet? Thanks
3 And 'Elohiym is hallowing <ath> Day of the Seventh. And He is hallowing him, that in him He ceases/shabath from all work of Him which 'Elohiym creates, to make these generations of...........
http://www.scripture4all.org/
Genesis 2:1 And the heavens and the land are being finished and all hosts of them.
2 And 'Elohiym is finishing in Day, the Seventh, work of Him which He makes. And He is ceasing/shabath in day of the seventh from all of work of Him which He makes
3 And 'Elohiym is hallowing <ath> Day of the Seventh. And He is hallowing him, that in him He ceases/shabath from all work of Him which 'Elohiym creates, to make......
4 ........these generations /towl@dah of the heavens and the land, in to be creating them, in [a] day YHWH 'Elohiym to make land and heavens.
Hi and thanks for the reply.The phrase "and these are the generations of..." happens quite frequently in Genesis. I think v. 4 is definitely supposed to be there.
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