2 Chron 716 God speaking, "My eyes and my heart will be there....."
God does not have a physical body. Ekklesian , do you believe it as written?
Yes, where metaphor and simile are employed, then it is written as metaphor or simile.
Prov 22 "Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction will drive it far from him."
Is folly a physical thing in his heart? Ekk, do you believe it as written?
As written, of course. But do you think the author was writing about a physical heart?
Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.
How many of us know cases where this did not happen?
Ekk, do you believe it as written? If so, why do people depart from it?
Well, that just goes to show you were sadly mistaken in the way those children were being trained. Instead of questioning the wisdom of Solomon, you should be questioning the trainers.
And, are the children old yet?
Job 38:7 when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Do stars have mouths that can sing? Ekk, do you believe it as written?
As I said, where metaphor and simile are employed, it is as written understanding the metaphor and simile.
But you're conflating what is typically called literalism with poetry. That's not to say that historical narrative can't employ symbolism, but it is often in the form of simile. So the historical narrative to which I alluded does not employ symbolism. You might get away with saying the writing was relative to the frame of reference of the observer, except for that pesky moon, which we all know moves around the earth.
1 Cor 11 every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven...
Does your wife wear a head covering in church?
I don't have a wife. I have gorgeous girlfriend, though. And I spent a few days in Denver with her and her family.
My point is this, there are many reasons, analogous language, accommodation language, understanding different biblical genres, undestanding Jewish culture: these are all aspects of biblical hermeneutics. Interpreting the bible is not just "believing it as written."
And that's your mistake right there. As written also means employing the literary devices.
It is more than that. God spoke in language that accommodated to man's perspective.
That's an arbitrary presumption, and erroneous. God spoke according to truth.
From his perspective, the sun stood still, because he was standing on earth. And the theories purported by Ekk, relying entirely on unreliable science that puts the age of the universe at 13 billion years, that is suspect to me. I tend to believe the theory (Although i do believe it is a theory) that the earth is not the center of the universe, and that the sun does not rotate around the earth relatively. Gravity makes sense. Smaller bodies rotate around larger ones.
Yes, that would be true in 99% of the cases. The only place that would not be true, would be the center of mass of the universe. No one is saying the earth holds the Sun in orbit by its gravity. Assuming the earth occupies the center of mass of the universe, which Relativity says we can safely do, then the earth would be motionless, and the observations we make could be justified. It would say that the Sun and planets of our solar system would be carried around the earth by the gravity and centrifugal forces of a rotating universe.
Relativity says we can safely assume the Moon is motionless in the center of mass of the universe, and the earth and other heavenly bodies carried around it by the gravity and centrifugal forces of a rotating universe.
Either way, you get the drift.
And my citations of naturalistic, long-age, sources, are only for the facts of the Hubble's observations, the structure revealed by the Planck and Sloan surveys. John Hartnett, btw, is a Christian astrophysicist, and a young earth creationist.