From: Walter Hicks (wallyshoes@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Nov 02 2003 - 20:42:51 EST
George Murphy wrote:
> Walter Hicks wrote:
> >
> > Vernon Jenkins wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > I read in the Hebrew of Gen.2:5 that the pristine earth experienced no rain;
> > > and in 2:6, a brief reference to the alternative hydrologic cycle that then
> > > obtained.
> >
> > And I read in english
> >
> > 2.6 but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the
> > ground-
> > 2.7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into
> > his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
> >
> > So Adam was made of mud (or do we have interpret something)?
> >
> > Interpret? Interpret? Surely that is not allowed ;)
> >
> > In the 50's Tennessee Ernie Ford had a song called "16 Tons". The first line was
> > "Some people say a man is made out of mud."
> >
> > Biblical literalist no doubt.
>
> I don't want to defend Vernon's argument, but Gen.2:7 says "from the dust of the
> ground." The Hebrew `aphar is "dust". It is not legitimate interpretation to infer
> from v.6 that all the ground was muddy & thus ignore the literal sense of v.7.
If Ford had sung "... made out of dust", it would not have rhymed with the next line of the
song. Life must be tough for a song-writing-biblical-literalist. Can't even run a few versus
together.
Be it mud or dust, he must have been unsightly.
But "slime"? -- That sounds like something from Hollywood.
Walt
-- =================================== Walt Hicks <wallyshoes@mindspring.com>In any consistent theory, there must exist true but not provable statements. (Godel's Theorem)
You can only find the truth with logic If you have already found the truth without it. (G.K. Chesterton) ===================================
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