The three - decker world view of
ancient man, and the contemporary space universe which stems from Copernicus and Galileo are so different from each
other, that every aspect of the Christian faith on which
cosmology impinges must be radically reinterpreted.
Examples of these human marks include the fact that the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek, that the Old Testament world was a world of temples, priests and sacrifice, that Israel as well as the surrounding nations has prophets that mediated divine will to them, that Israel was ruled by kings, that Israel's legal system shares striking similarities with those of surrounding nations, that the creation narrative and the story of Noah resemble
other ancient stories of the time, that the writers of Scripture operated within the paradigm of
ancient cosmology, etc..