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Subject: time |
Bible Note: Greetings Sctt! I have been following this thread for awhile. May I interject a critique and a suggested explanation. 1) The critique: Your whole argument is based upon the assumption that spiritually a thousand years is a day. The problem is that both 2 Peter 3:8 and Psalm 90:4 are similies - a comparison of two things of a different kind or quality. Thefefore, neither verses says that a day IS a thousand years. The point of both passages is simply that God views time differently than we do. What seems like a long time to us is nothing to God - Who is timeless. A further problem is that viewing the 'day' of Genesis as a thousand years would violate the plain sense of the passage. What I mean is this, how would those who originally read Genesis understand a principle not revealed until Psalms or 2 Peter? But there is a diffent way of looking at Gen. 2:17. Here is what Victor P. Hamilton says of this verse in his New International Commentary on Genesis. ******************************************** "Second, we need to examine the uses of mot tamut in Scripture. In addition to its appearance in 2:17 and 2:4, it appears twelve other times in the OT (Gen. 20:7; 1 Sam. 14:44; 22:16; 1 K. 2:37, 42; 2 K. 1:4, 6,16; Jer. 26:8; Ezek. 3:18; 33:8, 14) (**See Note below). All of these passage deal with either a punishment for sins or an untimely death that is the result of punishment. In two of these passages we observe that the threatened execution is not carried out. Thus in jer. 26:8 a sentence of death is pronounced against Jeremiah: 'You shall die!' Yet the death penalty is not exacted, for he is released on the basis of a century-old precedent set by Micah in the days of Hezekiah. In 1 Sam. 14:44 Saul says to Jonathan, who has just eaten the honey in ignorance of his father's ultimatum, 'you shall surely die, Jonathan.' Yet Jonathan does not die, but rather gains a reprieve...Furthermore, note that the three passages from Ezekiel (3:18; 33:8, 14) hold out the possibility that repentance may avert death...All that mot yamut clearly conveys is the announcement of a death sentance by divine or royal decree." **Note: (The author includes only the occurances of the infinite absolute 'mot' followed by the Qal 2nd masc. sing. imperfect 'tamut'.) ********************************************* Thus, if this author is correct (and he is an expert in Hebrew), then all Gen. 2:17 must say is that the day they ate of the tree in violation of God's command, they received a death sentence. The sentence itself need not have been carried out on that exact day, only issued on that day. Just some things to think about my friend! Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |