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An Evening with John Walton and the Genesis One Debate

John Walton, author of The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate Hermeneutics is to restrain us not the Text Bible written for us but not to us High context vs. Low context We read the bible as low context readers We have to see the world the way the text does There is no scientific revelation in the Bible. It was their business to figure it out. There is no ancient word for brain in hebrew Observation of natural cause and effect does not remove God from the picture (Ps. 139:13) Concordism Whose science in what era gets to be on top? God revealed himself through their science. God created day and used light to differentiate it from night. This ultimately creates time or the basis of time. Create means to bring something into existence. What does existence mean? Create occurs 50 times and takes God as it's subject making it a divine activity. But it takes a wide variety of objects. Genesis 1:1 is a literary introduction to the passage. Starting point is not lacking matter but order Darkness and sea are elements of chaos in ancient world Tohu = lacking worth or purpose Egyptian parallel of nonexistent as  a reference to that which has not yet been differentiated and assigned a function yet having potentiality. Thesis: functional ontology Cosmic temple Functional Ontology means 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 out of disorder. Genesis 1 is not about things created  though it assumes them The first function is time The second function was weather The third function is food Time-weather-food (discussions at the bus stop) Genesis 8:22 has all three discussed after the flood. Rest is the maim goal of creation: people may be climax of six days bit rest  is the climax of the creation account When a deity rests it does so in a temple. The cosmos is his temple and doesn't begin until the deity takes up residence in his temple ( the temple) (Psalm 132:7-8; 13-14) Rest is settling into the take up control of that which has been ordered. If the 7 days is like a temple inauguration then the objects are not necessarily being made in those seven days. 7 days has nothing to do with the age of the earth.

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