Bible Study - Understanding Genesis 1 & 2

This is simply wholly incorrect! The earth and planets rotate around the sun due to a balance gravitational and inertial forces. As our understanding of the universe has increased it is obvious that "[He made] the stars also" is perhaps the greatest understatement of all time! Further those 3 words demonstrate a complete misunderstanding of the scale of the universe.If the "interpreters" were trying to make it easier to understand they could have put something in there that really demonstrates deep knowledge or understanding. Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

Are you saying that you do not believe that gravity keeps the earth rotating around the sun? If you do believe that, in what sense does the stars decorating the night sky come into play here at all? Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

Charley Well the strict definition is orbit not "rotate" but I fail to see how "decorating our night sky with the stars he had made" is the reason for planets to orbit the sun. Could you clarify this? Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

Genesis chapter 1 says he did this by positioning the earth the sun and the stars in context to the orbit of the earth around the sun.kjv genesis 1:14-19. He uses the bands of forces we call gravity to maintain the orbits. The word says this is why we have the zodiac, why we have days, months, and years, its all in the first chapter of genesis, etc...The Word says that God is able to loosen or bind even the bands of the stars within our galaxy. kjv job 38:31 We call these forces gravity and the Word infers that God is able to bind or loosen these forces.It also says that he alone is responsible for spreadeth out the heavens. kjv job 9:8 The universe is expanding the Word says God alone is responsible. The hubble telescope confirms the Word that the universe is expanding. Since God alone is said within his Word is responsible for the spreading out the heavens its saying that he is able to loosen the bands we call gravity.Jesus Christ is true light of true light and thru him the bands we call gravity were created and are subject unto him. He is able to bind or loosen the forces we call gravity because he is true light of true light begotten not made of the Father. The Word is God Breathed not mans words but Gods. Its demonstrates a deep knowledge and understanding of the ordain movements of the solar system in respect to the universe.The interpreters did not mean he created the sun, moon or the stars on the 4th day but that they were made to be as a lamp unto the earth.Its understood from other passages within the bible that God ordains the movements of all the stars and galaxies. The Word says he alone is responsible for spreading outward of the heavens. Its not by the binding of the forces of gravity but the loosening of the forces of gravity. Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

It says in the first chapter of genesis that it was so they would be a light unto the earth in the day sky and night sky for signs, for season, years, days. On day 5 he created the creatures that rely upon visible light thus why on Day 4 God maximised the lights to rule in both in the day and in night sky. And the Word said God saw that it was good. kjv genesis 1:18. Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

where does it say that at? i don't see it unless bronze-age people somehow learned about gravity?infact the book says the earth was flat and didn't move giving god glory in poetry doesn't really make for much of an argument, of course the author would say god did all that stuff, its god. jesus didn't exist as a person at the beginning, or at least genesis doesn't say it, and john isn't talking about jesus as a person, but as an idea, a logos not really, and whats your evidence its "god breathed?" and what does that even mean?
the bible shows nothing of an understanding of the solar system, just the same stuff the early peoples believed, the 5 planets and the moon and the sun, thats why we have a week after all he didn't? it says it right there though! looks like it to me, unless you have some other meaning than 'made'
imo, it looks like god made the sun and moon after he made plants and animals, its not chronological at all, its a story if you have to look to other books in the bible to understand the meaning of one, i'd say theres no meaning at all to any of it.it means what it says, even to the point of absurdity, because franky, the israelites had no clue about anything anymore than the greeks or egyptians or anyone at that time Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

this is what the israelites believed, its not true though, its a retro-active answer to a 'why' question, namely "why are there lights in the sky?" the answer is: god put them thereits a just-so answer, i mean the whole 7 week thing is a just-so answer to the question of why we have a 7 day week, its not the reason why we dothey got it from the assyrians, who got the week from the planets they can see and the moon and sun
why do you think we have the weeks named after planets and the two other objects?
just because?monday=moonday
tuesday= tiw's day,= uranos
wensday = woden's day = juputer = or zeus
thursday = thor's day = mars or ares
friday = frega's day = venus or aphriditie
saterday = saturn or chronos
sunday = sun's daythe point is people wanted an answer thier god could be used in not someone elses, as the assyians would be a no Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

Exaggerating can be a form of lying. Feel sorry for yourself. I called no one a "big fraud".History is not exactly science. Detecting the tempurature on Pluto today is one matter. Postulating on the tempurature of Pluto 350 million years ago is another. Edited by jaywill, : No reason given.Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

Sarcasm is not exaggeration, I am not lying, and would you not edit your post after I've quoted it and replied to it? Thank you. Why? No. It is, however, about what happened in the past. Were you there? Do you own a time machine? Have you been there with a thermometer? Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

That's history and not science.Testimonials and records of Queen Ann's death most likely can be found left by her contemporaries.Whether or not God formed Eve the first woman from the rib of Adam the first man, is a historical concept. No one witnessed it except the prophet or seer who wrote Genesis.I freely admit that it is my faith that accepts it as true. As a historical concept you don't know it didn't happen.Your "faith" is perhaps that an ape like primate gave birth to the first woman. Whatever, Eve's birth many thousands of years ago is historical concept we're speaking of and not a science fact we know one way or another.It is not in the same realm as detecting the tempurature on Pluto today or examining contemporary records as to Queen Ann's date of death.Do you think that a God who created the universe would have difficulty building a woman from the bone of a man? I don't.And it was not a simple magic trick for trick's sake. The building of the female wife from the life of the husband is exceedingly meaningful to the whole divine revelation of Christ's purpose in building an eternal "city" out of the life of Christ. Edited by jaywill, : No reason given.Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

One of the Christian brothers I enjoy worship with was a planetary physicist from MIT. His thesis was on Pluto.They have other methods of detecting the tempurature besides going there with a thermometer.Next time I see him I'll ask how they detect tempurature on Pluto.Eventually you like everyone else decides to trust someone. It all boils down to us eventually deciding that someone is trustworthy.I did not start reading the Bible with Genesis. I was first persuaded that the integrity, veracity, and honesty of Jesus Christ in the New Testament was beyond question. I then noticed that in His teaching He seemed to take the book of Genesis seriously. Based on that I opened my typically closed modern mind and accepted Genesis with cautions given to what the language actually says.I decided that if Jesus took it seriously, I should take it seriously. Edited by jaywill, : No reason given.Edited by jaywill, : No reason given.Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

I'll answer that when you explain why my alleged Sunday School teacher should be felt sorry for.And you don't even know if I had one. Maybe you think I was brought up in Sunday School all my life. That's your ignorance.In fact I gave my early Sunday School teacher a considerable hard time with the book of Genesis and with some other matters. I gave the clergyman a hard time also.Years intervened before I decided that the Bible was indeed a communication from God to man, through men moved by the Holy Spirit. Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

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How do you know these testimonials were written by her contemporaries? Were you there? No. Like the death of Queen Anne? Ah yes, it may be against the laws of nature, but God can do it by magic.Except that even granted that premise, all the evidence says he didn't. Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

He shoots, he scores. Edited by AdminPD, : Warning