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Author Topic:   The Problems with Genesis: A Christian Evolutionist's View
Buzsaw
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Message 60 of 200 (484693)
09-30-2008 11:10 PM
Reply to: Message 50 by Hawkins
09-30-2008 5:15 AM


Reading Genesis 1 Correctly
Hawkins writes:
Our knowledge is bound by the 3D environment we are living in. If we are willing to open to possibility and grow our knowledge to what limited us. You may find that, 1) there is always an adjacent space for earth to be made in the 4th and upper spatial dimension, then Earth is put to its current position on day 4, thou by the limit of concept we assumed that planet earth is always in its current location.
Bear in mind that if Earch was not where it is now, Genesis can be literally correct.
Earth has no need to have been moved to make Genesis 1 correct. You need to read thoughtfully and carefully, taking care not to add what is not in the words.
Genesis 1 says, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
Paraphrasing what it says: "In the beginning of the heavens, God created them and in the beginning of the earth, God created it. That's all it says in this opening preface to the chapter. All that statement is saying is whenever the heavens and earth were created, God did it. It doesn't give any information as to when each thing in the heavens was created or when planet earth was created.
This comes before day one when the Spirit of God begins God's work on the void dark waste of the surface of the planet.
Now, the Bible says God had no beginning and no end, i.e. is an eternal supreme creator. One aspect of the Biblical god, Jehovah is that he creates, re-vamps and destroys things in his universe to suit his own purposes and pleasure. So he has been creating, destroying and managing things in his universe forever.
The Bible says that God dwells in the heavens/cosmos and indicates that his abode is far more beautiful and wonderful than what we can imagine here on earth. He also has a host of angelic super human beings around him and moving about throughout the universe where ever he sends them or perhaps has them dwelling. We can't imagine how many billions of other creatures are out in the universe in various forms.

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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Buzsaw
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Message 70 of 200 (484900)
10-02-2008 10:49 PM
Reply to: Message 59 by gluadys
09-30-2008 2:49 PM


gluadys writes:
That simply distorts the text with a quirky interpretation for no other reason than to make it fit your preconception that Genesis must be "literally" correct.
But why does it matter if Genesis is not "literally" correct? It was never intended to be a science text.
What would your response be to my response to Hawkins, as follows, relative to the literacy of Genesis 1?
Earth has no need to have been moved to make Genesis 1 correct. You need to read thoughtfully and carefully, taking care not to add what is not in the words.
Genesis 1 says, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
Paraphrasing what it says: "In the beginning of the heavens, God created them and in the beginning of the earth, God created it. That's all it says in this opening preface to the chapter. All that statement is saying is whenever the heavens and earth were created, God did it. It doesn't give any information as to when each thing in the heavens was created or when planet earth was created.
This comes before day one when the Spirit of God begins God's work on the void dark waste of the surface of the planet.
Now, the Bible says God had no beginning and no end, i.e. is an eternal supreme creator. One aspect of the Biblical god, Jehovah is that he creates, re-vamps and destroys things in his universe to suit his own purposes and pleasure. So he has been creating, destroying and managing things in his universe forever.
The Bible says that God dwells in the heavens/cosmos and indicates that his abode is far more beautiful and wonderful than what we can imagine here on earth. He also has a host of angelic super human beings around him and moving about throughout the universe where ever he sends them or perhaps has them dwelling. We can't imagine how many billions of other creatures are out in the universe in various forms.

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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