>RALPH NIELSEN 2/10
> "The water under the earth" means exactly what it says. In Bible
>days (and for centuries later) the world was flat, and covered with a dome
>or "firmament" that held up the waters above the earth. There was also
>water under the earth in the Great Deep. It rushed up during Noah's Flood
>and retreated back again afterwards.
> Most creationists imagine that the waters above the earth (the
>alleged "water canopy" of Henry Morris and others) all came down during the
>flood. This is not so, because in Psalm 148:4 they were still there.
> As for the water under the earth, this is a bit much for some
>"Bible-believers" to swallow, so their favorite doctored version of the
>Bible, the NIV, gets rid of the entire earth with a stroke of a pen and
>just says "the waters below" (Exodus 20:4). This is how dishonest
>fundamentalist apologists treat scripture.
Just wondering, what do the letters NIV mean? I remember looking up the quote
from "Pulp Fiction" (Ezekiel 25:17, I think), but didn't find anything
similar in any of my translations. I was told this was from the NIV version.
Is this version based on any new findings, or is it just a case of artistic
freedom gone wild? The verse from Ezekiel is _very_ different from King
James, and absolutely every other translation I have seen.
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