When reading the bible, you should also keep in mind it wasn't written by an American or Greco-Roman but instead a Jew/Hebrew from the Orient. Two entirly different thought-processes.Why do you think that the gospels don't have everything in chronological order? Cause they focused on the events, not the timeline of the events.Genesis is the same way. So is Revelation. 2 Samuel isn't in chronological order either.It's not that one or the other is right (referring to the thought processes: Greco-Roman or Orient) but that they are different.In seminary you learn that this is called 'Block logic' or 'Hebrew logic' when it's rooted from people that are in Asian cultures, or the 'Orient'.So, step 1 comes before step 2 is the Greco-Roman thought. And walking up the stairs is the Asian thought. Both are correct, but two different ways to look at the same event.Just remember the LATTER was how the Word of God was written.
LittleGift wrote:sauropods, the massive plant-eating creature with a tiny head, and long neck and tail, that had a "brain" above its hind legs, apparently to work the rear end, because the real brain, in its head, was too small to do the job
lovegrace wrote:When reading the bible, you should also keep in mind it wasn't written by an American or Greco-Roman but instead a Jew/Hebrew from the Orient. Two entirly different thought-processes.Why do you think that the gospels don't have everything in chronological order? Cause they focused on the events, not the timeline of the events.Genesis is the same way. So is Revelation. 2 Samuel isn't in chronological order either.It's not that one or the other is right (referring to the thought processes: Greco-Roman or Orient) but that they are different.In seminary you learn that this is called 'Block logic' or 'Hebrew logic' when it's rooted from people that are in Asian cultures, or the 'Orient'.So, step 1 comes before step 2 is the Greco-Roman thought. And walking up the stairs is the Asian thought. Both are correct, but two different ways to look at the same event.Just remember the LATTER was how the Word of God was written.
LittleGift wrote:Thank you so much for this great summary. More or less on the lines of what I wanted to say but didn't know how!
"The Bible doesn't say everything was created in 6 days."Yes, dear brother, it does.Exodus 20:11a For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is
_________________Hal Bachman
