This is the introduction to an interesting lecture I saw on-line. In this clip, Dr. John Walton describes the necessity of reading the Scriptures in the context of what the authors believed to be true, not what we do.
Here is the link to Dr. Walton’s full presentation: https://youtu.be/1kOflP3eLSI
From what I have seen, he and Dr. Michael Heiser definitely appear to be cut from the same cloth. I can certainly appreciate and respect their intellectual honesty in showing that the Biblical authors readily accepted and promoted the same cosmology shared by pretty much the whole ANE, which is totally different cosmology from what we have today. However, I can’t accept their Doctrine of Accommodation/”the Bible is a book of theology not science” rationale for dismissing what they know it actually says.
What I am agreeing with in this video is the fact that we MUST read the words with the understanding the HOLY SPIRIT INSPIRED AUTHORS had, not what we wish to impose upon the text based on what we claim to understand.
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Rest with Yah my brother , I am now teaching this stuff to my children, you have impacted even the next generation. See you in paradise my brother
He is wrong in this. The Bible was written to all people, and for all who believe.
How can he say read it one way, and yet then ignore his own advice to believe in a spinny ball? The Bible is a FE book, through and through. Wow the mental gymnastics that are required to get spinny ball out of the Bible. 🤦♂️
Isn't it the Holy Spirit that leads us into all truth?