Flat Earth Fear Dudes
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The New King James Version (Chapter 1)
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The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness,
The world and those who dwell therein.
And Adah bore Jabal. He was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.
And as for Seth, to him also a son was born; and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on the name of the Lord.
The Flat Earth Folks = A fear of flying? Fear of Spinning. Fear of empty and void? Then look at the idea of dwelling on a spinning globe...and flying off into space [outer darkness!!! ooey]. Genesis 4.26. Seth = a strong foundtion.
First mention of the word, dwell, is in Genesis 4.20. Jabal and whole passage there, with Seth, when men began to blaspheme the Name of the Lord. They want eretz.
In the former meaning, we are informed first (Gen 1:9–13) that God created the earth on the third day. All is done here by the divine fiat. The earth is not the product of a primordial substance, as is the case in the Babylonian Enuma Elish where the earth is formed from part of the cadaver of the fallen and slain deity Tiamat. It is a sphere that is totally under the control of divine sovereignty. Enosh, in Gen 4.20, from root word, anas = puny or sickly. Note that from Gen 4.20 to Gen 4.20 to Gen 4.25, that men were given birth to. Then in Gen 4.25, Seth called his name, Anus, followed by calling/blaspheming the Name of the Lord! The earth is the Lord’s (Ps 24:1). He is its King (Ps 47:2 [H 3]), and its Lord (Ps 97:5). As such the world is good, and is not to be written off as intrinsically evil, the work of a demiurge. Absolutely no tinge of an “escapist mentality” is to be found in the ot. Hamilton, V.P. (1999) “167 אֶרֶץ,” Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament. electronic ed.