tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20930767.post977678552997914609..comments2023-06-01T14:08:49.977+00:00Comments on Confessions of a Doubting Thomas: The death of Samson and the omniscient narrator...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20930767.post-11985608519000039272008-07-22T04:40:00.000+00:002008-07-22T04:40:00.000+00:00There are many instances in the Bible of an omnisc...There are many instances in the Bible of an omniscient narrator. Think of the conversations between God and Abraham, and Moses, and Elijah, and Jonah where there was no third party to witness the conversation. Either each of these human beings lived to tell it, or God revealed it. However, when God said, Let there be light, there was no human being to hear it. In Deut. 34, God speaks to Moses, but Moses never returned and died afterward. <BR/>Regarding Samson - there is the story of Masada when all the Jews committed suicide, but supposedly there were a few that escaped and told the story. There were ones who survived the sinking of the Titanic so we know what happened on board. We could assume that not all died in Samson's story, and lived to tell what happened. But the Bible does not tell us that. In fact, the Bible often does not tell us that the writer of the story was an eyewitness. <BR/>To amplify the difficulty, how much do we believe about history even though we do not know who were the eyewitnesses?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20930767.post-82367696161034743522008-02-26T10:22:00.000+00:002008-02-26T10:22:00.000+00:00Interesting post - but if everyone inside died, th...Interesting post - but if everyone inside died, then there could have been people running out the door as they saw it collapsing or people peering in the windows from outside?<BR/><BR/>Also just noticed that the translation you quoted from says:<BR/>"down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it" <BR/><BR/>...i.e. it didn't necessarily kill all the people in it.<BR/><BR/>Just a thought.<BR/><BR/>Enjoying the blog.<BR/><BR/>JKAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com