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Genesis 1-2: Origins or Identity? – Feat. Dr. John Walton

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What's the Metaphor of Cultural Cognitive Translation?

The bible uses very specific images and words that come from an ancient, near east context. So i can't go to an ancient israelite or an ancient babylonia and ancient egypt also have their back packs that say creation on them. But if you unpack their back packs, your find a lot of things that are very, very different from what we have in our back packs. And sometimes we get we don't take enough cognizance of the fact that the label doesn't tell you the exact nature of everything in the back pack.

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