The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate
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The Old Testament does communicate to us and it was written for us, and for all humankind. But it was not written to us. It was written to Israel.
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On the level of words, for example, there are Hebrew words that simply do not have matching words in English.
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But Israel understood its God in reference to what others around them believed.
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We gain nothing by bringing God’s revelation into accordance with today’s science. In contrast, it makes perfect sense that God communicated his revelation to his immediate audience in terms they understood.