Glen - Look at Genesis 8:9 KJV "But the dove found no rest for the sole of
her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark. for the waters were on
the face of the WHOLE EARTH....." the NIV reads "...all the surface of the
earth..." Now how can you say the reference in II Peter could refer to
anything less than that? That, by the way, is also in Strong's
Concordance. "Whole" is 3605, "earth" is 776 in the Hebrew lexicon.
When Jesus was referring to the prophets whose blood had been shed '
...from the beginning of the world...' (Luke 11:50) one has no trouble
understanding what Jesus meant. HE was not defining narrow boundaries, was
HE? The context dictates the meaning, and applies just as well to the
reference in II Peter. The context, based on other areas of the Bible,
dictates the meaning. Peter meant "the whole world", nothing less.
GM>>>>And as to men being wrong, what happened to the theologians who
determined
> from the Scripture that the sun revolved around the earth?<<<
Do not disagree, but the leading thinkers of the time were also making
pronouncements that the geocentric theory was correct. In fact, because of
that, theologians came around to trying Galileo. the point I am making, to
which your comment actually is irrelevant, is that man generically has been
wrong so many times in the past. What is to keep him from making
pronouncements now that might be wrong at some future time. Macroevolution
is coming increasingly under attack by its own academia. There are so many
other historical examples of error. Nebraska Man, Piltdown man, the
recapitulation theory, Neanderthal man, to name just a few. I understand
that these examples were later found to be fraudulent by other scientists,
but at the time they were considered the last, most up-to-date word on the
subject. As I am sure you are aware, Nebraska Man was used by Clarence
Darrow to browbeat WJ Bryan in the Scopes Trial. It was later discovered
to be a tooth of an extinct pig.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
and do not rely on your own insight.. Pr. 3:5
Ron Chitwood
chitw@flash.net
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