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RE: Gen 1:6-8.

From: "Liz Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>
To: "Stephen C. Carlson" <scarlson AT mindspring.com>, "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Gen 1:6-8.
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 23:23:52 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen C. Carlson [mailto:scarlson AT mindspring.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 11:10 PM
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: Re: Gen 1:6-8.
>
>
> At 06:45 PM 8/29/00 -0400, Liz Fried wrote:
> >What do people who believe in the inerrancy of the
> >biblical text do with the word raqi(a in vs 1:6-8? Do
> >they think the sky is a rolled out sheet of metal
> >strong enough to hold the rain waters?
>
> A lot of inerrantists interpret raqi(a as "expanse,"
> but your question seems more directed to literalists
> than to inerrantists.
I'm a literalist, and it doesn't mean "expanse."
But I guess you can't be both a literalist and an
inerrantist.
>

Liz

Gen 1:6-8., Liz Fried, 08/29/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Gen 1:6-8., Stephen C. Carlson, 08/29/2000
- RE: Gen 1:6-8., Liz Fried, 08/29/2000
- Re: Gen 1:6-8., <Ånâtäsïà >, 08/29/2000
- Re: Gen 1:6-8., Peter Kirk, 08/30/2000
- Re: Gen 1:6-8., Ben Crick, 08/30/2000
- Re: Gen 1:6-8., Dave Washburn, 08/30/2000
- Re: Gen 1:6-8., Ian Hutchesson, 08/30/2000
- RE: Gen 1:6-8., Dave Washburn, 08/30/2000
- Re: Gen 1:6-8., Ian Hutchesson, 08/30/2000
- Re: Gen 1:6-8., Harold R. Holmyard III, 08/30/2000
- Re: Re: Gen 1:6-8., barre, 08/30/2000
- RE: Re: Gen 1:6-8., Bill Ross, 08/30/2000