The Narrow Path Ministries

How do I know that you are telling me the truth? Maybe you are just giving me a fictitious story about what you believe. Or maybe you are giving me literal truth wrapped in fictional details. Fundamentally, you don't know. But you would use some process of evaluating my writings to help you make a ...

By the way, thanks jasonmodar for sharing the Lennox video. It was very entertaining and encouraging. He made a lot of great points.

I do not wish to ignore the meaning of "yom". What I'm saying is that one can't tell whether "yom" is being used figuratively or not simply by the word itself. The word may be used literally to mean an actual day relative to the context but if the context itself is largely wrapped in fictional detai...

So why would you single out just Genesis one to apply a symbolic meaning of "day" and not apply it that same way in the rest of Genesis? Or do you see symbolic uses of it elsewhere in Genesis? Perhaps one might expect to see other symbolic uses of the word "day" in other parts of Genesis but this e...

There is nothing about Exodus 20:8-11 that demands a literal 24-hour day for creation. Regardless, of how a dictionary defines words, those words can always be used figuratively at the discretion of the author. All the passage in Exodus may be saying is that we are to follow the same pattern in our ...

Hi Dwight, I too have had difficulty with the terms myth and mytho-historical when applied to passages in the Bible. I think these terms can send the wrong message although I suppose when properly explained, they are useful terms. I'm not sure any single term adequately captures what may have been g...

If you'd like to study the Scriptures in their original languages as well as multiple modern translations, I've found blueletterbible.org to be a very helpful site. Once you look up a chapter, clicking the "Tools" button on the left of each verse presents an inline box showing both the original Gree...

Hi Homer, Perhaps some contemporaries of Job would have been capable of discerning that Leviathan and Behemoth were not physically accessible in their own time period, if indeed they weren't. Other people probably wouldn't have been concerned with and/or capable of such discernment. However, why wou...

Nothing God says about these creatures, nor their context, provides any reason to see them as imaginary or spiritual beings. Perhaps not on a casual, isolated reading of these passages. Yes, Leviathan and Behemoth are presented as physical creatures contemporary with Job. Job is challenged to physi...

Hi Steve/TK, I personally have not made up my mind regarding the age of the earth or whether dinosaurs and man ever co-existed. However, despite the similarities of Behemoth and Leviathan to dinosaurs, I could see this as being merely coincidental. In Job, it seems likely to me that Behemoth and Lev...