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Like "steel"?It would certainly be impressive if the Bible had a word in it for something that wouldn't be known or even contemplated for millennia.
Like "steel"?
Then you could whine it was written after the fact.
The original Hebrew isn't called a Bible, chief.No, in the original Hebrew. Where the word translated as steel means copper or occasionally iron.
Seriously, if the Bible even came close to something like that, I might still be a Christian.It would certainly be impressive if the Bible had a word in it for something that wouldn't be known or even contemplated for millennia.
It would certainly be impressive if the Bible had a word in it for something that wouldn't be known or even contemplated for millennia.
Is this what you mean, then?
Like אתאיסט instead of שוטה ?
Oh snap boys, looks like he opened up a can of Hebrew on us!Is this what you mean, then?
Like אתאיסט instead of שוטה ?
The original Hebrew isn't called a Bible, chief.
Make up my mind, will you?
You might want to explain this request, then:No idea. I can't read Hebrew. What are those words, and what are their possible English translations?
I've given you an example in English, and an example in Hebrew, and you're still not satisfied.It would certainly be impressive if the Bible had a word in it for something that wouldn't be known or even contemplated for millennia.
Ya, but he's whining about the 'original Hebrew' -- or something.Byblos (bĭb'ləs), ancient city, Phoenicia, a port 17 mi (27 km) NNE of modern Beirut, Lebanon. The principal city of Phoenicia during the 2d millennium B.C., it long retained importance as an active port under the Persians. Byblos was the chief center of the worship of Adonis. Because of its papyruses, it was also the source of the Greek word for book and, hence, of the name of the Bible. Excavations of Byblos, especially since 1922, have shown that trade existed between Byblos and Egypt as early as c.2800 B.C. A syllabic script found at Byblos dates from the 18th to the 15th cent. B.C.
Read more: Byblos: Definition from Answers.com
Well the way you were talking I assumed it was some time around 1300BC, because they obviously already knew about it, and eventually Even Science found out.
Except it isn't. The atmosphere of the earth was very different billions of years ago than it is now. So if your god created the earth's atmosphere it wasn't created the way it is now, friendly to human life.This means that Genesis 1 can be read:
In the beginning God created the earths Atmosphere and the earths lithosphere...Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
The creation account in Genesis 1 may very well be an account of the recreation of the earths biosphere following a global catastrophe.
Well, it was not meant to be a scientific account; it was meant to be a historical account from which we can learn spiritual truths and values.
You are entitled to your own opinions, but you are not entitled to your own facts.
Genesis does have symbolic meaning to all of its hearers. We can gain symbolic meaning from historical events.
Israel as a historical nation is symbolic of the Church.
Did you read Hentenza's post?Genesis 1 was never meant to be historical. If it were it would be written as history not poetry.
Did you read Hentenza's post?
Genesis 1 shows no poetry whatsoever.
Or it might be a poetic account meant to teach spiritual truths and values, not a scientific account of the begining of the universe. Considering that the first hearers of this poem were probably a bunch of agrarian bronze age people with no scientific knowledge or interest, which is more likely? That the book of Genesis would be meaningless until some 20/21st century literalist comes along and reinterprets it, or that it actually had real symbolic meaning to its first hearers?
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