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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Well, one side is with reality and the other side is trapped in a book.
Christians finally discovered youtube, oh no!
What if God explained the shape of the Earth and skies to the Israelites exactly the way that they are in reality? This gentleman seems to be conforming God's intent here to fit modern secular man's view of cosmology.
I'm just now realizing the enormity of taking the word of God as it was written. The Holy Spirit inspired man to write what God wanted us to know. Would the Holy Spirit inspire men to write misinformation, confusion or lies. No, I do not think that to be true. So now I have to let go of the lies of man and Satan. I choose to cross over the line and stand with and believe the word of the Creator. I do not have to understand it but just trust Him.
sooooooooooo, Rob……..since he wants to be surprised, have you by any chance, contacted him and given him the biggest surprise of his LIFE??!!
heyy ROB it just hit me, the 10 commandments had to have been taken out of and written on the firmament!! the eternal law was literally written on tablets of the heavens
Exodus 24: 10. And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. 12. And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them. 13. And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
"According to traditional teachings of Judaism in the Talmud, they [the tablets] were made of blue sapphire stone as a symbolic reminder of the sky, the heavens, and ultimately of God’s throne; many Torah scholars, however, have opined that the Biblical “sapir” was, in fact, the lapis lazuli. "
Book of Jubilees concurs