Human Perspective

hamilcarr

I remember JWs asserting that Ge 1 was written from a human perspective. Therefore, "the two great luminaries" (Ge 1:16), referring to the sun and the moon, are only "great" when seen from the earth, but in fact they are pretty small when compared to stars. Other passages within Ge 1, otoh, are written from a divine perspective (no literal days for instance, Ps. 90:4).
What are the (philosophical) implications of the switching between different perspectives?
How does the act of inspiration take place when sometimes a human and sometimes a divine perspective is transmitted?
slimboyfat

Maybe it was written from the perspective of a human whose God's perspective was not as remotely divine as God's perspective is from our perspective.
watson

The Bible is an amazing "book."
slimboyfat

I really don't see the point in unbelievers asking this sort of question. Should we also in our spare time interrogate children as to how Peter Rabbit can talk when a rabbit's brain is not developed for language?
hamilcarr

unbelievers
Am I?
slimboyfat

I fought so.
slimboyfat

Am ah wrang?
hamilcarr

Let's put it in the same category as your predestination debates then?
slimboyfat

What are we putting?
And what is the category?
hamilcarr

And what is the category?
The well-it-doesn't-matter-anyway category.