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This article was posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2008
AGE OF THE EARTH
You are right on target, my dear friend David. I did the calculation myself according to the instruction of Dr. James Barr. I came up with 8125 years excluding the gaps in between generation occasionally. But this is what Dr. James Barr (Regus Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University), who himself does not believe Genesis is a true history, nonetheless admitted as far as the language of Genesis 1 is concerned that… “so far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew or Old testament at any World-class university who does not believe that the writer(s) of Genesis 1-11 intended to convey to their readers the idea that: 1. creation took place in a series of six days which were the same as the days of 24 hours we now experience 2. the figures contained in the Genesis genealogies provided by simple addition a chronology from the beginning of the world up to the later stages in Biblical story. 3. Noah’s flood was understood to be worldwide and extinguished all human and animal life except for those in the ark. In like manner in the 19th century, liberal professor Marcus Dods, New College Edinburgh said, “…….if for example, the word “day” in these chapters does not mean a period of 24 hours, the interpretation of scripture is hopeless.”Next posting: Noah and the Ark
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