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Author | Topic: If our sun is second or third generation, does this not conflict with Genesis ? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jon Inactive Member |
Sorry, after a bit of further reading. The first generation of stars also would not have had planets either
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | First stars had no planets
So first day God created light Third day God created land Gen. 1 says nothing about God creating land on the third day. Where are you reading this? Love your enemies!
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Oli Junior Member (Idle past 4419 days) Posts: 16 From: United Kingdom Joined: |
CogitoErgoSum writes: Does this not negate the whole "let there be light" narrative. Well, perhaps not in itself since god created the sun and the stars on the same day, but it doesn't say in what order he created them in. The fact that it takes molecular clouds millions of years to collapse into stars might make a literal one day interpretation a bit difficult though. Also, there are stars observed in the galaxy in various stages of thier billion-year life cycles. So it looks like god created an 'aged' universe. Not to mention that most of these objects are more than 6000 light years away... Oli
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fearandloathing Member (Idle past 4170 days) Posts: 990 From: Burlington, NC, USA Joined: |
Jon writes: Sorry, after a bit of further reading. The first generation of stars also would not have had planets either
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | First stars had no planets
So first day God created light Third day God created land Gen. 1 says nothing about God creating land on the third day. Where are you reading this? Gen 1:9-13 taken from here 9 And God said, Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear. And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground land, and the gathered waters he called seas. And God saw that it was good.11 Then God said, Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds. And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morningthe third day. "I hate to advocate the use of drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they always worked for me." - Hunter S. Thompson Ad astra per aspera
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Jon Inactive Member |
Jon writes: Gen. 1 says nothing about God creating land on the third day. Where are you reading this? Gen 1:9-13 taken from here 9 And God said, Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear. And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground land, and the gathered waters he called seas. And God saw that it was good.11 Then God said, Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds. And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morningthe third day. Yep, I read that. My question still stands, though. Edited by Jon, : added quote Love your enemies!
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jar Member (Idle past 419 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
What Jon isquestioning is the fable being a creation fable as opposed to an organization fable. The initial image in Genesis 1 is of Chaos, a chaos system that exists but that the God character brings into order. It is not so much an act of creating land as of separating it from the water.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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fearandloathing Member (Idle past 4170 days) Posts: 990 From: Burlington, NC, USA Joined: |
I guess I don't understand your question, I know it wasn't directed at me but I figured I would put my 2 cents in as I had just got done looking at the passage.
Do you think he means gen 1:1 or ??? It seems clear to me it was on 3rd day based on gen 1:9-13... Am I wrong and why?? I think maybe the OP could've been a little clearer by using exact passages. "I hate to advocate the use of drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they always worked for me." - Hunter S. Thompson Ad astra per aspera
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Jon Inactive Member |
I guess I don't understand your question, I know it wasn't directed at me but I figured I would put my 2 cents in as I had just got done looking at the passage. Do you think he means gen 1:1 or ??? It seems clear to me it was on 3rd day based on gen 1:9-13... Am I wrong and why?? I think jar hit the nail on the head. The whole notion of there actually being a creation is just ridiculous. An attempt to look for ways to reconcile scientific facts with a story is just pointless and silly. The story is just wrong. Plain and simple. Nonetheless, if one wishes to take shots at the story, it helps if they've at least actually read the story. Jon Love your enemies!
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
fearandloathing writes: I guess I don't understand your question, I know it wasn't directed at me but I figured I would put my 2 cents in as I had just got done looking at the passage. Do you think he means gen 1:1 or ??? It seems clear to me it was on 3rd day based on gen 1:9-13... Am I wrong and why?? Maybe. Does "let the dry land appear" mean creating land or uncovering pre-existing land? What was the formless earth created on day 1? One interpretation is that water and dirt were created on the first day.
I think maybe the OP could've been a little clearer by using exact passages. The OP's original question did not require sorting out when land was created. I cannot imagine that a YEC would find these questions all that interesting. Wouldn't a YEC simply insist that whatever modern cosmology says is completely wrong? Isn't it really the science minded, old earth creationists that have to deal with the conflicts?
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fearandloathing Member (Idle past 4170 days) Posts: 990 From: Burlington, NC, USA Joined: |
I guess I may have misinterpreted the passages, I am no creationist by any means and probably have no business interpreting a book I don't believe in. I simply seen your question and thought I would look it up for myself and put my 2 cent in, as I have said before, I am often wrong, and probably continue to be so on a regular basis.
Not sure about the future of this topic?? "I hate to advocate the use of drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they always worked for me." - Hunter S. Thompson Ad astra per aspera
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fearandloathing Member (Idle past 4170 days) Posts: 990 From: Burlington, NC, USA Joined: |
Nonukes writes: The OP's original question did not require sorting out when land was created. Yes I see now, the OP's writer made a statement in msg 10 that refereed to land on 3rd day, I should've looked back before saying the OP wasn't clear . "I hate to advocate the use of drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they always worked for me." - Hunter S. Thompson Ad astra per aspera
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Jon Inactive Member |
Not sure about the future of this topic?? I don't think it has a future. There's simply no way to reconcile the facts with some literal reading of Genesis. Love your enemies!
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CogitoErgoSum Junior Member (Idle past 650 days) Posts: 13 From: Manchester, England Joined: |
Sorry I hadn't had time to reply. My very quick version of Genesis, 1st day light, 3rd day land
First day: God (Elohim) creates light ("Let there be light!")[Gen 1:3] Second day: God creates a firmament ("Let a firmament be...!")[Gen 1:6—7]the second commandto divide the waters above from the waters below. Third day: God commands the waters below to be gathered together in one place, and dry land to appear (the third command).[Gen 1:9—10] Genesis creation narrative - Wikipedia and the question I was asking, perhaps a little glibly, was that if our sun is a second or even third generation star, how is this accounted for in this narrative ? Sorry, I realise I hadn't explained this clearly. Put it down to my forum virginity. Must try harder ........ Edited by CogitoErgoSum, : Forgot to put source in
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jar Member (Idle past 419 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
CogitoErgoSum writes: Sorry I hadn't had time to reply. My very quick version of Genesis, 1st day light, 3rd day land First day: God (Elohim) creates light ("Let there be light!")[Gen 1:3] Second day: God creates a firmament ("Let a firmament be...!")[Gen 1:6—7]the second commandto divide the waters above from the waters below. Third day: God commands the waters below to be gathered together in one place, and dry land to appear (the third command).[Gen 1:9—10] and the question I was asking, perhaps a little glibly, was that if our sun is a second or even third generation star, how is this accounted for in this narrative ? Sorry, I realise I hadn't explained this clearly. Put it down to my forum virginity. Must try harder ........ It isn't. Genesis 1 is a much later story than the rest of Genesis but the emphasis was not on the creation narrative, rather the narrative was simply a plot device to discuss in poetic language the relationships between man and God and God and creation as seen by the people of that time and culture, likely between 640-610 BCE. The main purposes were to establish the Sabbath and to show what the people then saw as the relationship and overarching nature of their God. Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
CogitoErgoSum writes: if our sun is a second or even third generation star, how is this accounted for in this narrative ? Hi CES. Welcome to the site. I'm literalist old earth creationist with a unique perspective. Genesis one begins with an opening statement before the day/night work had begun. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." That statement does not give any time frame as to when he made them. He simply states that whenever they were made he did it. In order to effect the work of the first three days to suit him, he needed a great amount of heat and light; more than our sun would have afforded. We read in Revelation about the new Heavens new earth and new Jerusalem which is to come. The text says there will be no sun & moon in the Holy City because the glory of God will lighten it. The implication in Genesis one is that the glory of God via the Holy Spirit will be the source of light until our sun was created on the fourth day. The light was likely regulated to the precise temperature to effect the evaporation of the water from the void of the cold wet planet in order to created the perfect atmosphere and to separate the land and water on earth. The record tells us that one of the primary functions of the sun was to initiate the 24 hr day. Clearly implicated is that before day five, we have no knowledge as to how long the first four days were. I include day four, because the text does not state how long it took to do the work of day four, i.e. create and set the lights in the firmament, as the text puts it. In chapter two verse 4. we read phrase worded, in the day that God created the earth the sun, moon and the heavens. The term day here is obviously not a literal day but referring to the time when each were made. BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.
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Jon Inactive Member |
if our sun is a second or even third generation star, how is this accounted for in this narrative ? The obvious answer is that it simply isn't accounted for. There was no Genesis creation. Love your enemies!
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