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The purpose of hermeneutics is not to restrict the text but to constrain us As in science we rely on external verificati

The purpose of hermeneutics is not to restrict the text but to constrain us As in science we rely on external verification and peer review God’s Purpose is carried out through human purpose Authority is vested in the author

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The purpose of hermeneutics is not to restrict the text but to constrain us As in science we rely on external verificati

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  1. The purpose of hermeneutics is not to restrict the text but to constrain us • As in science we rely on external verification and peer review • God’s Purpose is carried out through human purpose • Authority is vested in the author • For us, but not to us: Message transcends culture, but form is culture bound • Must take our place in his audience

  2. We must see THE WORLD the way the text sees the world

  3. Egyptian Cosmology

  4. We must see THE TEXT the way the ancient Israelite saw the text

  5. ETHICAL READING Ethical reading asks us to take up the position of the implied audience and engage the speech-acts and conventions of the literature rather than using it only to formulate our own speech-acts and critiquing it against the measure of our own conventions

  6. Science and the Bible • No scientific revelation (heart) • Observation of natural cause and effect does not remove God from the picture (Ps 139:13) • Concordism vs. Accommodationism

  7. why DIDN'T God call Light ? "LIGHT"

  8. Conclusion: on day one, God created BASIS OF TIME in His first step to bring order to the cosmos

  9. Proposed Thesis • Functional Ontology • Cosmic Temple

  10. Functional Ontology • In the ancient functional ontology, “Existence” is defined by having a function, not by having a material structure • Genesis 1 provides an account of functional origins, not an account of material origins • Genesis 1 is about God bringing order (functionality) out of disorder (non-functionality) • It is fruitless to ask what “things” God created on any given day, for the text is not concerned about the existence of matter or formational history. • Functions: Time, Weather, Food

  11. Time Weather Food FUNCTIONS IN CREATION GENESIS 1

  12. Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, Will never cease

  13. Gudea Cylinder Cosmos as Temple • “Rest” is the main goal of creation: People may be climax of six days, but “rest” is the climax of the creation account • Gods rest in temples; rest is rule • Temples mark center of sacred space and the center of order in the cosmos • Temple is constructed as micro-cosmos

  14. Psalm 132:7-8, 13-14 Let us go to his dwelling place; let us worship at his footstool—arise, O LORD, and come to your resting place, you and the ark of your might. . . . For the LORD has chosen Zion, he has desired it for his dwelling: “This is my resting place for ever and ever; here I will sit enthroned.”

  15. Seven Days • Analysis of the word “day” suggests it should be a 24 hr period • But what is happening during these days? • Most of the discussion is concerned about the age of the earth • If the 7 days is like a temple inauguration, then the objects are not necessarily being made in those seven days • If the days are concerned with bringing order rather than making things, the seven days has nothing to do with the age of the earth

  16. Consider . . . Nearly all of the modern controversies concern what the biblical view is of the span of time over which things were created. If the text primarily addresses functions and not structures, what is the implication for these controversies?

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