Glenn reported
<< Mrs. R.
“Nor is there any, perhaps, which directly mentions it. But Mr. Penn says,
that though the earth was created on the first day, it was ‘invisible and
unfurnished,’ not ‘without forms and void,’ as our translation has it; and
the sea continued to cover the rocks till the third day, when God said, ‘Let
the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the
dry land appear,’ and it was so. From this he very plausibly infers, that
to provide a basin for the waters, in order to collect them into one place,
a violent disruption and deepening of the solid crust of the earth must have
taken place, and its solid framework burst, fractured, and subverted in all
those parts where depression was required to produce the deep bed of the
ocean. As this first revolution of the earth happened before the creation of
plants and animals, it explains the circumstance of none of their remains
being now found in the rocks called primitive.”
Edward
“This is, indeed, very ingenious and plausible; but I am disappointed in
not having a more distinct account of it in the record.
Mrs. R.
“Even this Mr. Penn has discovered, in a beautiful passage in the hundred
and fourth Psalm, which, for anything known to the contrary, may have been
written by Moses. Christian will favour us by reading what I have marked.”
Christina
“’Who laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be moved. Thou
coverest it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the
mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; as the voice of thy thunder they hasted
away. They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys into the
PLACE which thous hast formed for them. Thou didst set a bound that they may
not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.”
Mrs. R.
“Now it appears from this sublime history—from the ‘rebuke’ and the
‘thunder,’ that it was a crisis of stupendous and terrible convulsion, when
the waters of the sea were fixed in their channel, and the dry land and its
mountains elevated above the level of the great deep.” >>
There has been a change from this position. Most modern flood geologists
interpret Ps 104 as a reference to the Flood, not the creation as here; and
the subject of Ps 104:8 as the land rising and falling, not the waters
as here. Penn's interpretation is the historical and contextual
interpretation. The modern creation science interpretation is ad hoc. As I
titled my paper (Sept, 99 Perspectives) dealing with the modern view:
"Creation Science takes Psalm 104:6-9 out of Context". So, you see, Glenn,
flood geolgists can change. (-:
Paul
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