David ray griffin evidence-based
David Ray Griffin (August 8, – November ) was an American professor of philosophy of religion and theology and a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.!
David Ray Griffin
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” This is how Genesis 1:1 has traditionally been translated.
Even the Revised Standard Version so renders it. However, the RSV in a footnote gives an alternative reading: “When God began to create the heavens and the earth, the earth was without form and void.
Griffin's strategy is surprising.
. . .” I understand that most Hebrew scholars believe this to be the more accurate translation. For many years I did not give much though to the possible implications of the alternative reading. Recently I have come to see that the alternative reading suggests a radically different view of the god-world relation from that which has dominated traditional theology and has thereby had a decisive influence upon Jewish and Christian sensibilities. If accepted, this radically different view will influence every aspect of Christian thought; but its most obvious and central impact will be upon that problem which has incre