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Originally posted by VelnsI still don't like it.
You see how "the Postulator" really is a better signature for you?
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Originally posted by sonshipWith all the things that God did in a creation day of 24 hours it could seem like a thousand years or to evilutionists, millions or billions of years.
Well, before I read many other's opinions on the passage, I understood it to mean that to God a long time to us might be not that long from His perspective.
In other words, not being mathematically exact, a long period to us, ie. a thousand years, to God seems like one day.
Conversly, (and most people I don't hear mention this) - one day can be like thousand years.
It may be a thousand years by the time you finish reading this post.
Originally posted by sonshipThanks for replying, it was an interesting post to read. I don't really have anything to add, except that a part of the purpose of the narrative seems to be to establish the Sabbeth, so the presence of a week is necessary to the narrative.
[quote] The narrative ends each day with "And there was evening and there was morning - the nth day." I don't think there's any reason to interpret the narrative as indicating anything other than the usual day night cycle. Whether Genesis should be interpreted literally is another thing. Especially since the sun, the moon and the stars aren't created until t ...[text shortened]... Thanks for it anyway, as I check it out. I have no comment on it.
Originally posted by sonship
DeepThought,
There isn't really a gap in Genesis at the start, God creates light, separates it from the dark and calls light day and dark night.
You are of course assuming that God saying [b]"Let there be light" is God CREATING light.
However, what it says is "LET ... there be light". You cannot really insist that nowh ...[text shortened]... id tell us many things.
I will go over your comments a second time latter.[/b]
An additional factor to consider is that there is, I believe, an unspecified interval of time between the beginning and the dark time in which the seer observed that the earth was waste and void. There is some unelaborated history of the universe in that interval of unspecified time.
Just from reading Genesis we might not notice this. Other portions of the Bible indicate this as a valid understanding of the beginnings of creation.
Originally posted by sonshipAnd God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so.
RJ, I don't think you responded yet. Give it a shot. I want to know how you think.
Did the plants that Adam eat [b]DIE as a result of him picking them and having them for a meal ?
If so, how does that square with the belief that through Adam's sin only, death came into the world ?
If the plants died then you may have to modify your concept ...[text shortened]... h coming into the world there must not include the dying of plants Adam was instructed to eat.[/b]
Originally posted by checkbaiterYou need to depart from the false teachers you are listening to.
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An additional factor to consider is that there is, I believe, an unspecified interval of time between the beginning and the dark time in which the seer observed that the earth was waste and void. There is some unelaborated history of the universe in that interval of unspecified time.
Just from reading Genesis we might not notice this. Other
Just more to ponder, I would not bet my life on it, but it is food for thought.