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My thesis: there is no measure of time attached to creation days. Grounds to credit the six days of creation as not earth days (a) The six days of creation don't use the Hebrew definite article. The first usage of <definite article><day> comes in Gen 1:14. "The day" (= the daylight) only...

...........continued Almost the first thing that was said to me in this sub-forum was that I didn't know God and there was something wrong with my beliefs. This from a YEC'er. This is what I mean by YEC as a cult: a pseudo-religious authority that arrogates to itself a right (implied or...

Whatever - there are no authorities in YEC science & theology: everything is scientifically or theologically falsified from a flood covering the entire surface of the physical earth, to ALL fossils being created after the flood. The idea of Adam's sons and daughters intermarrying after the fall...

I agree there are no technical words here. Keil says "According to optical appearance, it is described as a carpet spread out above the earth (Ps. civ. 2), a curtain (Isa. xl. 22), a transparent work of sapphire (Ex. xxiv. 10), or a molten looking-glass (Job xxxvii. 18) ; but there is nothing...

The human race shouldn't expect to know about everything in the universe. Just because we don't know how something happened, it doesn't mean it couldn't have happened. Thus, I read that most deep-sea animals do not have color vision. They have a single, blue-sensitive, visual pigment because 1)...

I am not here to debate the science of evolution, other than very generally. But consider this: the science of evolution and movement of the Earth's tectonic plates over millions of years makes more sense than the theology of God creating fossils of sea creatures on mountains, just to cater to...

But how many are "true Christians?" Far less than one might suppose from the number claiming to be "true Christian" but don't seem to know Christ. Would He have said what you said? Why did Christ choose Paul as an apostle? One reason is because he was an expert in the Jewish scriptures, and so...

First, the apostles acknowledge that Hebrew is authoritative over the LXX in respect of the OT. This is easily seen from Paul's quotation of Heb 2:4 in Rom 1:17, where he doesn't take the LXX literally (which adds a gloss to the Hebrew), but reverts back to the original Hebrew meaning. This...

Cry? I am laughing. You have shown me nothing except disdain. But hey: that's what "apostle" Calvin manifested to all those who disagreed with him. There is nothing new under the sun. But guess what: Calvin today is derided in the erudite commentaries as wrong on many matters. And he was. He is...

I am reading Sophia Taylor's translation of 1889. First, I cannot perceive what contradiction on pp. 85-86 you are referring to. "Dome" and "solid structures" are not invoked by Delitzsch, to my mind. Secondly, I don't accept Delitzsch is necessarily an advance on Keil, for the following...

Given a timeframe of circa 500-1000 million years, anything is possible. Wiki gives some indicators of how the evolution of the eye might have happened. In the timeframe of 100 years, the most you will see are genetic changes intra-species, not inter-species changes. Alone, it proves the...

Thank you for showing to me that you are not a serious debater. At least I will refrain from wasting any more of my time with you.

Animals are still evolving genetically. The evolution of some can be observed. Thus the "theory" of evolution gives way to the "facts" of evolution. Evolution has nothing to do with any view of God or any view of the bible, as it is a scientific process that it is no purpose of the bible to...

Here is one of the few places where many commentators agree with Calvin: Calvin on 1 Cor 2:13 "Spiritual things with spiritual Sunkrinesthai (a philosophical term meaning "combination") is used here, I have no doubt, in the sense of adapt. This is sometimes the meaning of the word, [123] (as...

Keil and Delitzsch on Gen 1:6 "There is nothing in these poetical similes to warrant the idea that the heavens were regarded as a solid mass [or dome], a σιδήρεον, or χάλκεον or πολύχαλκον, such as Greek poets describe. The רקיע (rendered Veste by Luther, after the στερέωα of the lxx and...

Three degrees, plainly taught by Christ, all having differring degrees of free-will: (a) Natural man/satan's sheep - bad sinners who reject moses, love untruth, and are subject to delusions from God in judgement. "The worst of sinners." (b) Receptive man/lost sheep - is able to grasp spiritual...

I have no idea what you're trying to say, as what you bolded - which is by no means the only translation of the Greek word συνκρίνοντες (grasping truths combinatively) - is what the apostles practised, and so isn't "foolish talk." Rather it's the road into understanding why the Calvinistic...

It is a mistake to link the abstract in Jn 1:5 to the specific in Eph 5:8. As Meyer says "Here [in Jn 1:5] the abstract term “darkness,” as the element in which the light shines, denotes not the individual subject of darkness (Ephesians 5:8), but, as the context requires, that same totality...

Christ said "The work of God is to believe in the one he sent." John 6:29. By that comment, Jesus was laying the obligation of faith firmly on men, whereas your terse comment seemed to be laying the obligation on God, whose mercy (grace) is what creates the opportunity for faith, which I agree...

Who are "Jewish scholars" to tell anyone how to read the bible? I disagree with your technical English terms, which don't reflect the imprecise meaning of original language words, so much as later opinions. And you didn't mention when Gen 1:1-11 was originally written. I disagree that it is not...