the Truth is stranger than fiction... #fundie youtube.com

(=Talking about a theologian who doesn't believe in Flat Earth=)

+Anime Guru I have watched the presentation by Michael Heiser being referenced here in it's entirety, and the only thing being "exposed" here is tigerdan's own blatant distortion of both Heiser, and Skiba's well-argued derivations from it. Essentially, Heiser himself openly admits that the cosmological view of the ancient Hebrews, including the authors of the NT, was that of an enclosed, geocentric system. Heiser is honest enough to prove at length through the text, but then concludes by offering a contrived argument as to why now as modern "scientifically enlightened" Christians, we should understand their simplistic literalism as merely the way God chose to communicate through their limited, primitive understanding at the time. In essence, that even though they believed quite solidly in a Flat Earth, we today should understand that this is only to be taken symbolically, even if they did not. The glaring problem with this type of argument of course is that there is nothing to prevent it from being applied to every other point of Biblical literalism, and so you might as well go ahead and embrace theistic Evolution and every other form of textual deconstruction, because you've just rendered the Bible as nothing more than allegorical myth. Do you now believe in Evolution too tigerdan....??

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