From: Michael Roberts (michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk)
Date: Sun Nov 16 2003 - 14:54:23 EST
Dick
I think you miss Paul's point. What he is saying , I think, is that early Genesis portrays things according to the cosmology of the day i.e. late 2nd millen b.c. Thus in Gen One it is according to the Egyptian style cosmology of the day and thus in terms of a flat earth (vs 6-8). It portrays rather than describes real events . So we can say that the world view of Genesis is true today and the world picture i.e. cosmology is not. I have long held this for Genesis One and am intrigued how Paul develops it for the Flood.
I have to admit that I am more inclined to Paul's viewpoint than to yours or Glenn's but I would see all trying to do the same thing. I think we need a big tent of OEC views e.g. Glenn, you, Paul and George and respect each other and concentrate of the two problems - atheistic evolution and YEC also liberal theological views which may retain the creator but emasculate the Redeemer.
Regards
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: Dick Fischer
To: ASA
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: Flood Paper available for criticism
Hi Paul, you wrote:
Some of you read my paper on the Flood a year or two ago. It has now been refined and edited and is basically ready for publication. First, however, I would like any serious criticism from any interested people. If you are interested in reading and giving critical comments (off list) on the paper, please let me know, and I will send it by attachment. The paper rejects both concordism's local flood and creation science's global flood. It. employs Calvin's concept of accommodation (to ancient Near Eastern cosmology) as the reason why the Flood account cannot be brought into history as an historically accurate VCR account, though still conveying theological revelation.
Do you mean the 2900 BC flood in southern Mesopotamia? Is that the flood that isn't historical?
Dick Fischer - Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
www.genesisproclaimed.org
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