To the extent possible, I want you to place yourself in the shoes of the ancient Hebrew writer. You have no “modern” scientific knowledge. You don’t know that stars are balls of gas. You don’t know how big the world really is, etc. (That is NOT to say they were ignorant, primitive brutes. No—ancient man was rather intelligent. They just did not have access to the kind of information we have access to today.)
The Bible and Phenomenology
The Bible and Phenomenology
The Bible and Phenomenology
To the extent possible, I want you to place yourself in the shoes of the ancient Hebrew writer. You have no “modern” scientific knowledge. You don’t know that stars are balls of gas. You don’t know how big the world really is, etc. (That is NOT to say they were ignorant, primitive brutes. No—ancient man was rather intelligent. They just did not have access to the kind of information we have access to today.)