tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post2828190462826106636..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: Darkness at noonRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-47726675705908864422010-06-03T22:58:08.765-04:002010-06-03T22:58:08.765-04:00Somewhere in a dark room, in a undisclosed place, ...Somewhere in a dark room, in a undisclosed place, Ed is cutting and pasting a long paragraph from a scholar whose work he does not understand... click.... paste...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-31413427544194771692010-06-02T20:44:52.957-04:002010-06-02T20:44:52.957-04:00"Steve, I'm also well aware of the multi-..."Steve, I'm also well aware of the multi-tier heavenly view. But the view that there is a heaven above, an earth below and something beneath the earth is the general schema in both Egypt and Mesopotamia no matter how many times you simply multiply the number of floors in heaven above."<br /><br />My citations weren't limited to the number of "heavenly" tiers. You keep trying to force all of the recalcitrant data into your preconceived grid, since that is what suits your agenda.stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16547070544928321788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-42543791109088109742010-06-02T20:42:17.281-04:002010-06-02T20:42:17.281-04:00EDWARD T. BABINSKI SAID:
"Steve, You don'...EDWARD T. BABINSKI SAID:<br /><br />"Steve, You don't have to pay to read my article if there's a library nearby. Inter-library loan."<br /><br />Even better, I don't have to read it at all. <br /><br />"There is information in my chapter with which you and many other YECs are not familiar. "<br /><br />You're in no position to know what I'm familiar with short of asking me or consulting the archives. <br /><br />"...including some Evangelical OT scholars) whose expertise in Genesis 1 is more formidable than that of YECs like Noel Weeks."<br /><br />You're like a tape-recorder on replay. You have no counterargument. So you simply repeat the same tendentious claim ad nauseum. <br /><br />You bottom out very quickly, Ed. You have no fallback arguments. All you can do is push the replay button and intone the same sound bite verbatim. The same rote answers. <br /><br />Oh, and you act as if this is ground-breaking scholarship. But these issues have been around since the 19C.stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16547070544928321788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-46690026002778926482010-06-02T20:40:41.186-04:002010-06-02T20:40:41.186-04:00Steve, I'm also well aware of the multi-tier h...Steve, I'm also well aware of the multi-tier heavenly view. But the view that there is a heaven above, an earth below and something beneath the earth is the general schema in both Egypt and Mesopotamia no matter how many times you simply multiply the number of floors in heaven above. <br /><br />According to Wayne Horowitz, author of Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography, “Ancient Mesopotamian understandings [of the general shape of the cosmos] remained remarkably constant over the 2,500 years or so from the earliest evidence for cosmography in literary materials through the end of the cuneiform writing 24 . . . . Heaven is the upper of the two halves of the universe. In ancient Mesopotamia, as in Judeo-Christian tradition, the heavens include both the visible areas [clouds, sun, moon, stars] . . . and higher regions above the sky, where gods of heaven dwell.”25 <br /><br />And beneath the earth lay the third region.Edwardtbabinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13036816926421936940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-56446251642914038102010-06-02T20:29:08.420-04:002010-06-02T20:29:08.420-04:00Steve, You don't have to pay to read my articl...Steve, You don't have to pay to read my article if there's a library nearby. Inter-library loan. <br /><br />There is information in my chapter with which you and many other YECs are not familiar. The information is from OT scholars (including some Evangelical OT scholars) whose expertise in Genesis 1 is more formidable than that of YECs like Noel Weeks. <br /><br />This is information that is part of a growing consensus among both Evangelical and OT scholars as I point out on the first page and in endnote 2.Edwardtbabinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13036816926421936940noreply@blogger.com