807: How Old Is the Earth? Dr. Tremper Longman
Theology in the Raw
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The Pushbacks to Genesis 1 and 2
The Bible was written to an ancient audience in a language Hebrew and with styles and means of communication that were familiar to them. There's also a lack of sensitivity to the kind of parallelism between the first three days which talk about the creation of realms that are filled by the inhabitants of those realms in days you know four through six. I'm aware of some of the and I think they're very desperate attempts to say things like well it's really talking the Sun Moon and Stars were created on day one light and darkness but on day four the clouds disappeared you could see the Sun Moon stars from the earth. So who's on the earth at this time that would have that perspective or the other
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