The Anointed
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I wish to point out that the story when it says firmament is generally taken to be talking about the separation between groundwater plus oceans and rainclouds. Rain falls, and the great deep pushes water upwards in Genesis. The quote seems not non-literal interpretation but rather a redefinition of sky to mean galaxy, and it seems far fetched to me to have to go to such lengths as redefining firmament to refer to the entire galaxy.
Brichjectivity wrote........I wish to point out that the story when it says firmament is generally taken to be talking about the separation between groundwater plus oceans and rainclouds.
The Anointed......By whom? By you? Not by modern scholars who define the firmament as a dome that surrounds our solar system, where, within that dome=firmament is our sun, moon and planets. .
Brichjectivity wrote...….The quote seems not non-literal interpretation but rather a redefinition of sky to mean galaxy, and it seems far fetched to me to have to go to such lengths as redefining firmament to refer to the entire galaxy
The Anointed.........Psalms 148: 4; KJV 4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.5 Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created.6 He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.
The Hebrew word used here, is "shamayim" which means more than just a galaxy but all the galaxies within this universe, For God created the HEAVENS=SHAMAYIM and the earth, in other words, 'The Universe."