3 days and three nights
No virgin in Isaiah
No "he shall be called a Nazarene"
Talking donkeys
Sun stopping from revolving around the earth (should have been the other
way around, and even if it had been, it is obvious to me, a simpleton, that
this would have cause a multitude of geophysical problems because of the
stopping of the movement of the earth. Just slam the brakes on in your
car.)
How many donkeys did Jesus sit on
Many problems with Jewish festivals in the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem
Eli, Lei/Eloi, Eloi (conflict and NOT a quote of Ps 22)
No pierced hands and feet in Psalm 22
Conflicting dates for Herod and census
Conflicting geneologies for Jesus through Joseph in Luke and Matthew (even
though his father supposedly HAD no geneology)
Antisemitic Jews
Pauls' conflicting conversion experiences
How many times did Peter's rooster crow?
When did Jesus curse the tree?
Why did Jesus curse the tree not in its season.
Jesus celebrated the passover meal AFTER passover.
Who was at the tomb?
Why is Jesus mentioned as beling at the tomb only in two gospels?
And the beat goes on and on and on
(DAVE 5/30) Yoel: I can't comment on many of these as I've only read a few
of them, but all the arguments on the ones I have read have ably spelled out
what COULD be wrong with the passages (in other words, proposed errors) and
not what IS wrong with them - Moserath and Mt Hor are an ideal example - no
one knows for sure, so there is specualtion, and then absolute assertions
from those speculations - this is illogical (I'm sure Fisher has some
wonderful Latin term for it :))
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>(DAVE 5/22) Yoel: So you are saying that the writer of Genesis meant to
>submit that the world was created in these 24 hour time periods? If so,
>what about the various meanings of "day" as I suggested above? Do these
>various meanings also apply to Hebrew?
yoel-
Dave! If I said I would arrive at your house in 1 day, and weeks later I
still have not shown up, you would not resort to believing my OBVIOUS
EXCUSE that 1 day COULD BE an "unspecified geological time". It is just
your desire to find an excuse to continue believing in this book.
(DAVE 5/30) Yoel: Again, that is only your opinion and doesn't really
address the point - it seems only logical to at least suppose that the day
meant a longer time considering what was accomplished in that "day".
Yoel
I do not have my Hebrew Bible available (an may not have for some time),
but I am almost certain (from memory) that the text is:
vayihi erev* vahyhi boker yom ehad
and it was evening and it was morning day one
* there is more to this word that just "evening", since "erev" (root:
ayin-reysh-bet) is the same root for "west" (maarav). It originally meant
when the sun was going west in the sky. The word boker (root:
bet-quf-reysh), comes for the word "to be well visible and distinct" or "to
visit".
ALL of the words used above are normal words used for times of day.
The meaning is obvious. You will find no blurring of the facts according to
the language.
BTW, the text is also in agreement with the Jewish custom of beginning days
with sunset.
(DAVE 5/30) Yoel: Thank you - very interesting. This seems to support
Farrell's post on this that the writer of Genesis understood this to be a 24
hour period (as the writer of the Exodus passage did as well). The question
remains, was it a 24 hour period?
I appreciate your comments.
Dave.
"I study to be little. You study to be great. I creep; you strut
along...Do not seek to be something. Let me be nothing, and Christ be all
in all."
- John Wesley writing to Francis Asbury