..."Interpreting Genesis 1 & 2"
(As promised, these are my edited notes from Dr. John Currid's paper at the LTS conference I recently attended) Dr. Currid read a section from an article published in the Times, Sept 13th, 2008, titled "Anglicans back Darwin over 'noisy' creationists" - click here to read this article online. One of the defining features of the reformation was a commitment to the original text. Take meaning from the text, do not infer meaning on the text. What genre? The key thing to interpreting Genesis 1 is defining the genre. So what is the genre? What was the author intending? Does Genesis 1 fit the Hebrew Poetic pattern? Line Parallelism "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands" Psalm 19:1 The second line repeats and adds to the first. - Genesis 1 lacks line parallelism. Figures of Speech "As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God" Psalm 42:1 The imagery reinforces the thought the writ...