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Originally Posted by JohnOwen007  Which "times" are you referring to, that of the ANE, that of the Graeco-Roman world ... ? |
The NT times in which the NT was written. When Paul says God commanded light to shine out of darkness, or Peter says the earth stood out of water and in the water, or Paul says He spake in a certain place of the seventh day, or Jesus says the Sabbath was made for man, and elsewhere that God made them male and female at the beginning, or Paul says the serpent beguiled Eve -- in such cases it seems your only line of argument could be that the speakers did not in actual fact believe these things "happened," but merely accommodated their speech to the people they were addressing.