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NASB | Genesis 8:7 and he sent out a raven, and it flew here and there until the water was dried up from the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 8:7 and he sent out a raven, which flew here and there until the waters were dried up from the earth. |
Subject: The raven (Gen 8:7)... |
Bible Note: Doc, I suppose one is justified in allowing his imagination to take flight when he reads "The Raven," as Poe certainly did when he wrote the poem, but to draw in the reins when reading the account of the raven and the dove in Genesis 8. Poe's "Raven" was a wild flight of the imagination; the flight of Genesis' raven is a statement of fact. ..... Along these lines, I'm reminded of an incident in the life of Herman Melville that took place some time after the publication of "Moby Dick." A number of literary critics had gone on record as saying that Melville's masterpiece was an allegory, and this classification stuck and has been attached to the book even to this day, in spite of repeated denials by the author himself that he ever had any intent to make the book allegorical. Having read the Genesis account of the creation and of Noah's flood many times over, I see nothing in either that bears the slightest hint that the Author ever had any intent that they should be interpreted allegorically but should be read and understood as statements of fact. Of course, it's handy for evolutionists and other skeptics and liberals to put their own brand of allegorical spin on things scriptural in some pale effort to lend a touch of verisimilitude to their subtle deceptions and outright lies, but it behooves the people of God to take Him at His word. It has long struck me as being particularly illogical and totally out of character that a holy and righteous God, the very epitome of truth itself, would begin His revelation of Himself to mankind in Genesis with a series of absurd allegorical fairy tales. Yet that is exactly what even some churches and liberal theologians teach today and would have you believe. --Hank |