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    What is your understanding of this text?

    Thanks for the links Learner. Reminding me of the libraries of competing explanations provided by so many for each word written in the Bible, which teaches that it, alone, is enough. I always try to remember that it was, many assume, written for all those who existed across 4,000 years or so...
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    What is your understanding of this text?

    Deuteronomy 33:15-"ancient mountains." Habakkuk 3:6-"ancient mountains," "age old hills." Psalm 68:33-"ancient skies." Judges 5:21-"ancient river." If the universe is 6000 years old then Biblical "ancient" means, say, 3000 years before these verses were written. What then of the two...
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    What is your understanding of this text?

    And mine. Verse 5 establishes that this is about creation, the sequence through verse 9 flows, in context, without interruption. The waters of verse 9 are clearly the waters established in verse 6.
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    What is your understanding of this text?

    I agree there was no evolution.., God created. In verse 30, badly translated in this paraphrase, "the radical creation verb "bara" is used. That is what God is resting from, now, but it is used in this verse, placing this verse's reference in the 5th or 6th "yom" during the Genesis creation...
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    What is your understanding of this text?

    (Since "bara" is used this verse can only be referring to the 5th or 6th creation "yom" before God rested from creating.)
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    What is your understanding of this text?

    Verses 5 through 9 show conclusively that Noah's flood was not global. Verses 29-30 here is a bad paraphrase. All the more accurate translations have it that God kills (takes away the breath) of animals and replaces them on a scale of the "face of the earth." These two verses predict the 5...