I enjoyed this remarkable thread by Leolaia. She is truly a biblical scholar. We need to revive more of her old threads. Thanks for bumping it.
The Creation Story of Genesis 1 in its literary context
by Leolaia 24 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Phizzy
PP you said to me : " I'd much appreciate a thread from you, sharing something you learned recently.."
Thanks for the thought, I will maybe find time to do that, but at present things are a bit hectic in my life, I have a lot of writing to do in the form of a Novel, and I will have to immerse myself in that, and have to live with the characters in my head for a while ! My Mentor told me he wanted me to finish it by the end of December, I have not really started it ! He said to me the other day "You cannot keep making excuses", which is true, the guy is too bloody perceptive, he sees through my procrastination.
But I find it refreshing to turn off from one thing for a while, and put the old grey cells to work on something different. I am always amazed at the depth of study possible when it comes to the Works we find in the Bible, so it still fascinates me as an area of study.
Keep your grey cells working, I find doing so is good for "the soul", the old body won't do what it used to do, and does some things it shouldn't, but if we can keep our minds in Olympic quality fitness, that is a great thing for us !
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Rattigan350
It's not that difficult. God gave the story of the creation to Moses in revelation. Moses wrote what he saw. God didn't tell him what to write.
Gen 1 does reference to the creation of clouds, 1:6 mentions the expanse and the division between the waters and the waters. That's the clouds. And in vs 14 speaks of luminaries. The luminaries of the sun and moon were created at Gen 1;1 so this speaks of the clouds letting them be seen from earth so clouds were there.
What confuses people is the days thing. But time was not mentioned until Gen 5:3 "Adam lived for 130 years and then became father to a son". That was the first occasion that time was mentioned. The days came later.
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Acluetofindtheuser
Moses wasn't the sole author of Genesis. He didn't get an inspired download of Genesis when he became an anointed one of God. There were preserved ancient documents that were given to Moses at the proper time. Noah's log was one of those documents along with the story of Job.
A May 15, 2003 Watchtower revealed there may have been a log of Noah that was passed down through many generations. There are ancient records that say Seth, the third son of Adam and Eve, was the inventor of written language. He possibly was the first one to get the accounts of Genesis started. The early inspired records would have been passed on from Seth to Enoch and then from Enoch to Noah and then to Shem.
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Phizzy
Moses did not write anything, he is a fictional character, as is Noah et al. The first few Books of the Bible were written in Judah by Jews from Babylon after the Exile circa 500-450 BCE. They were writing an invented, fictional Foundation Myth for the Nation they hoped to build in Judah.