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Originally Posted by Traveler
Thought I would put forth some thoughts.
I do not know what happened. I think it is possible that “world” has both intent and extent in meaning throughout the scriptures. I am not sure that “world” means the same to us as it did the ancients. And so we introduce a new word, global. This is a new term that was not used by the ancients. I am not sure it is wise to introduce new words and then say that the concepts are the same.
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I agree with this standpoint. Looking at just how the language was, very poetic, many metaphors, significant (representational) numbers, etc., there is much that you can't read straight as literal text the way you would read a history book written in modern times. Just as we use hyperboles, so would the authors then. You might say that a concert hall was packed "with a million people", but of course no hall actually holds a million people. (That I know of?)
However, I would take the account of the flood to have flooded all that was known to the author. At that time, they certainly did not have a sense of the remote continents and would not even be able to mentally grasp that a flood would or could reach them.