5.07.2007

Doesn't it mean exactly what it says?

"I seriously doubt the global-warming issue, if it does exist, will be on anyone's Top 5 list after the comet/asteroid collision of Isaiah 24:19-20 occurs."

This letter to the editor of The Banner, August, 2006, letters to the editor) is a text-book case of overliteral reading of Scripture. Liberals (Banner editors, for example!) love to point these people out to argue against reading the Bible literally or believing in its inerrancy. This does not follow, and only gets people laughing at some misguided, but otherwise orthodox Christians. This is the posture of the serpent, not Priscilla and Aquila (Acts 18:26).

The author probably thinks that the earth being split open means a comet is going to hit the earth and break it into 2 or more pieces, or dig a huge hole in it. He is not reading the Bible literarily, in genre (Isaiah is speaking poetically here, as he does often). Neither do liberals read the Bible in context, when they deny that Isa 24:19-20 teaches that God is going to cause great chaos/consternation among His enemies because of their sins.

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