Thank you Dr. Craig for making your teachings available online for everyone to view, I look forward to them each week. I'm currently reading Sinai & Zion by J. Levenson and he has a section where he deals with myth, providing a definition very similar to yours, so I feel like I'm being confronted with this relatively new idea (for me) from multiple sources. I have also just recently ordered J.W. Rogerson Myth in Old Testament Interpretation. What you're sharing is quite interesting and I think worth investigating further, and so I am trying to doing that. I was wondering if you are familiar with either of these titles and if you would recommend them (or perhaps others)? Thank you again for all you are doing to build and encourage the body of Christ!
Dr. Craig I applaud you explaining mythology to a digestable level! It is very difficult. I've tried to do it and it's so easy for Christians to revert to saying the Bible isn't myth or I can't believe you're comparing the Bible to other stories made by man. Keep going sir!
Many people think that the word _myth_ means that the story is false. That is NOT the meaning of the word _myth_ in this context. It's a type of literature style. People are confused, because of things like the show Myth Busters, and the modern usage of the word _myth._
"Figurative discourse"? Yes, but for what purpose? Gen 1 - 3 is liturgy, not historical narrative. And it is not a science text. Tom Wright correctly identified it as "a temple story," ua-cam.com/video/fxQpFosrTUk/v-deo.html .
Thank you Dr. Craig for making your teachings available online for everyone to view, I look forward to them each week. I'm currently reading Sinai & Zion by J. Levenson and he has a section where he deals with myth, providing a definition very similar to yours, so I feel like I'm being confronted with this relatively new idea (for me) from multiple sources. I have also just recently ordered J.W. Rogerson Myth in Old Testament Interpretation. What you're sharing is quite interesting and I think worth investigating further, and so I am trying to doing that. I was wondering if you are familiar with either of these titles and if you would recommend them (or perhaps others)? Thank you again for all you are doing to build and encourage the body of Christ!
Dr. Craig I applaud you explaining mythology to a digestable level! It is very difficult. I've tried to do it and it's so easy for Christians to revert to saying the Bible isn't myth or I can't believe you're comparing the Bible to other stories made by man. Keep going sir!
Many people think that the word _myth_ means that the story is false. That is NOT the meaning of the word _myth_ in this context. It's a type of literature style.
People are confused, because of things like the show Myth Busters, and the modern usage of the word _myth._
Get this guy a new marker! Lol
"Figurative discourse"? Yes, but for what purpose? Gen 1 - 3 is liturgy, not historical narrative. And it is not a science text. Tom Wright correctly identified it as "a temple story," ua-cam.com/video/fxQpFosrTUk/v-deo.html .
Hard to tell how to read it actually.
If Genesis was literally true, humans and animals were created twice, and there was death before sin.
"Is Genesis 1:1-11 literally true?".
It's theology, not history or science.
History and science show the coherence of theology.