Response to everyone who has advocated some form of the theory that Gen 1-3 was transmitted from Adam to Moses via tablets / oral tradition:
I think there is something else that you have all missed. Besides the obvious difficulty of believing that a "divine message" could have been faithfully transmitted for over 2000 years, there is another perhaps even bigger problem.
Joshua 24:2 tells us:
And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Long ago your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, Terah the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods. Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land o f Canaan, and made his offspring many.'"
Let's remember that everyone from Adam to Abraham (with the exception of Enoch and Noah) were pagans! They had rejected the true God and lived in sinful depravity, worshipping other gods. Why then would these men have faithfully transmitted a story about how the true God created the world?
I think this means we can safely write off the "tablet theory"altogether. The only viable theory for YECists is that God spoke to Moses directly about Genesis 1, or perhaps he spoke about it to Abraham who then passed the story down to Moses.
Judging by the poll, it seems that not many people agree with the tablet theory anyway!
(Does anyone want to let AiG know so they can stop teaching it too?)
I think there is something else that you have all missed. Besides the obvious difficulty of believing that a "divine message" could have been faithfully transmitted for over 2000 years, there is another perhaps even bigger problem.
Joshua 24:2 tells us:
And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Long ago your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, Terah the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods. Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land o f Canaan, and made his offspring many.'"
Let's remember that everyone from Adam to Abraham (with the exception of Enoch and Noah) were pagans! They had rejected the true God and lived in sinful depravity, worshipping other gods. Why then would these men have faithfully transmitted a story about how the true God created the world?
I think this means we can safely write off the "tablet theory"altogether. The only viable theory for YECists is that God spoke to Moses directly about Genesis 1, or perhaps he spoke about it to Abraham who then passed the story down to Moses.
Judging by the poll, it seems that not many people agree with the tablet theory anyway!
(Does anyone want to let AiG know so they can stop teaching it too?)
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