Reply To brolga
(Date Posted:09/06/2009 02:30:26)
Ralph,
It's one thing to acknowledge that anthropopathism needs to be considered in the Genesis account of Creation, but altogether a different hop-step-and-jump to reach the conclusion that the Genesis flood is little more than a pious fiction! However, the principle theological point of the "flood account" is to demonstrate that sin invariably leads to a return to "tohu, wabohu" (the Hebrew words used in Genesis 1 to describe the "unformed" state of the earth). In other words, the effects of sin has impacts upon the entire created order, which necessarily leads to "un-Creation" (i.e. the "flood"), with a concomitant and subsequent need for "re-Creation". We find this theme expressly repeated with respect to the end of this age and the attending Parousia. The various commentaries on Genesis spell out the issues in detail, so I don't really need to rehearse them here.
Good to see you using the noodle, 'though.
Blessings,
Ian
(Message edited by Didaktikon On 09/06/2009 16:45:27)
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