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The Thunder God.

Dr Craig, you've been talking about ancient Israel-like cosmology.

You've mentioned that on your Defenders series,

talking about Genesis and so forth.

And you often hear that Genesis is criticized for having this outdated garish cosmology of a dome over the earth and there's water above that

and the stars are embedded in that dome.

You've clarified what that means and I run across a blog from Alex Bayman, and he says that

moderate Christian apologists have done an astonishingly good job of sweeping under the rug the fact

that the Old Testament does indeed describe a flat disc-shaped earth covered by a solid dome called the firmament.

It's very evident reading Alex's blog that he resents not having been told about these matters in his Christian upbringing

in his church. He complains that Christians are not taught about these things.

He says it was never taught from other Christians.

He said probably they themselves were unaware of the verses in the Bible that

teach about the firmam because nobody ever taught

them about it either.

And so I think there's a certain resentment that's coming to the surface here that he feels

somehow the wool has been pulled over his eyes

and that now he's seen for the first time this antiquated, allegedly ancient near

eastern view of the world that you have

described. And I think the good news for Alex is that what Christian Old Testament

scholars have done a very good job of doing is showing that the

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