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..... The Israelites were not thinking in modern cosmological terms.
What do *you* *know* about ancient cosmology?
Your apparent attitude towards the ancients sounds like the 19th century European chauvinism that was behind the development of DH. What do you know about ancient cosmology? I wouldn't be surprised that your concept mirrors that of Medieval cosmology, which was a strange mishmash of Greek philosophical method smashed into Hebrew and Christian terminology by scholastics who were more wedded to Greek philosophy than Tanakh.
But when we take the Hebrew Tanakh and the Greek New Testament for themselves, ...
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.... They were thinking of a universe which began with a creation, and which was probably expected to end in some kind of final destruction.
Hey, that sounds exactly what I believe.
`Olam with past reference referred to things which were thought to date back to the creation or at least to the period immediately following it.
Wrong.
..... `Olam with future references referred to things which are expected to continue until that final destruction, or which were at least in practice equivalent to that.
Again wrong.
Or rather, not necessarily to both. The use is more nuanced than that.
As for the New Testament use of "eon", it too is used for a limited but unknown length of time (e.g. Matthew 28:20) as well as eternity, just like (WLM.So , Karl, do you consider that, according to this verse, there will be a future time when Jesus is not with his people?
Another straw man argument.
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