Cheryl Schatz

Mark,
You said:

4. I am not trying to offend or attack you with the Islamic relations. But your deliberate denial of historical relevance is not proper scholarly exegesis.

Mark, I would ask you to deal with the issues and not bring in inappropriate connections with non-Christians. Also I have taken a lot of time to carefully explain why the historical account of the actual events of the creation account in Genesis is dependent on the account and the inspired words and inspired grammar and it is not dependent on any man-made culture. God created Genesis for all of us and if He wanted us to understand His own actions within a sub-culture of people who would live thousands of years later, then He would have created that within the text. I believe that it is unwise to add in a cultural position that is not stated in the text especially since it causes contradiction with the issue of “naming” later in the book of Genesis when a woman names God. One either must be consistent here or drop the unsupported assignment of authority when God refused to record about any additional authority given to just one of the two world rulers.