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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I disagree with everything. The bible is unreliable because the author is unreliable. If you think science is all lies then you must question the bible's so called authoritative text.
So when the bible says that the sun sets and rises, that the sun goes up and down, the bible is wrong? Flat earthers say that the sun is always above us, but the bible tells a different story.
so true
The two cameras angles were totally not necessary, very distracting actually.
It amazes me that Christians think they know more about the Old Testament than the Jews.