re food for thought on tyre there has been a lot of discussion about tyre in sum ezekiel prophesied that the place would be mashed and never rebuilt as there are a lot of people living there it would appear that ezekiel was not literally correct this doesn t bother me at all because i understand the language ezekiel used differently than do so called biblical literalists for example it sometimes happens that someone says my grandson is the cutest baby and then turns around and sees the granddaughter and says oh isn t she the cutest thing this person is not literally claiming to have lined up all the babies in the world according to cuteness and discovered his own grandchildren tied for first rather he is trying to express his emotions using words that are very object oriented because this example is one that is common to many people nobody misunderstands the intent of the statements the bible however is often at the mercy of people who assume that everything within must be exactly literally true for those people the existence of tyre is a problem for me it is not turning to the latest person trying to defend ezekiel we read this from john e king the prophesy clearly implies that people would still be living in the area no it implies nothing of the kind if you had nothing but the prophecy from ezekiel and you were told you interpret it literally you would never say oh he means that there will be houses and businesses and plants and stuff like that you would read i will make you a bare rock and you will never be rebuilt and you d conclude that tyre would be a bare rock the only way to get from fishing nets to houses and buildings and a medium large population is if you know that all that latter stuff is there in other words your answer means that ezekiel misled everybody who read the prophecy at the time it was written there is no way that given a literal reading they could read this passage and conclude medium size city you seem to feel that never be rebuilt means be rebuilt maybe so but it is hardly a clear implication mr king also writes so far i ve seen stated figurers ranging from to let s assume the latter one is correct by modern standards we are talking about a one horse town well no that s only a bit less than the population of annapolis where i m from you know the naval acadamy the state capital george washington resigned his commission in the statehouse annapolis may not be new york but it s at least a two horse town but supposing people is a small town it s still people more than ezekiel predicted and you ve said nothing about the other problem in chapter ezekiel predicts that nebuchadnezzar will will destroy tyre and loot all their valuables however nebuchadnezzar did not destroy tyre and in chapter ezekiel even quotes god as saying he and his army got no reward from the campaign he led against tyre let s ignore alexander for a moment and just pay attention to chapter ezekiel says n would destroy tyre and n did not destroy tyre ezekiel says that n would plunder their valuables but n did not plunder their valuables regardless of what you think about tyre now the fact is that n died before the place was destroyed ezekiel said n was going to do it and n did not this post is of course pointless inerrantists have an amazing ability to rewrite the bible as needed to fit whatever they want it to say for example i expect mr king to respond to the comments about ezekiel by pulling some clear implications out of hat when ezekiel said that n would demolish your towers that clearly implied that the walls would still be standing so people would know where the towers used to be and when ezekiel said that n would demolish your fine houses and throw your stones timber and rubble into the sea that clearly implied that n would never set foot on the island and when ezekiel wrote that n would build a ramp up to your walls that clearly implies that n would spend years stomping around on the mainland and never get close to the walls see a few clear implications that are totally contrary to the text and you can reconcile anything you want darren f provine kilroy gboro rowan edu do you know why i m the enabler because you demand it cliff claven
