There are so many unanswered questions from thread one that I think another thread should be open to allow Terry to respond.
Terry makes so many sweeping unsupported statements about the reliability of the Book of Genesis that I feel he should really begin to support these assertions with some tangible evidence instaed of what amount to nothing more than his opinion.
Terry made two claims in the first thread (post 297)that I believe are erroneous and are either not found in the biblical text, nor are they even suggested.
God created things to be perfect.
First of all, he suggests that the world was created ‘to be perfect’, however, nowhere in the Book of Genesis does God actually say that his creation was perfect. He does claim that it was very good, but very good and perfect is not the same thing. If you were to hand in an essay to be assessed, you would know that if you scored a very good then you do not have a perfect score, a ‘very good’ means that it was just that ‘very good’ it is, however, not perfect.
So, the claim that God’s creation was perfect is one that is simply invented by fundies who ignore the biblical texts.
No sickness, death and etc. Sickness and death were introduced into the world at the fall of man when he ate of the forbidden fruit in Genesis 3.
This is another claim by Terry that is incorrect, the claim that nothing died before the Fall of mankind, is not a biblical one. This is another fundy claim that has no basis in anything biblical.
Fundies seem to ignore the fact that plants are alive and when eaten by animals or humans it is difficult to imagine how they survive.
This claim that nothing died before the Fall is entirely unbiblical.
Genesis 1:29-30
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
So, you can see that all that Adam and Eve had to eat was really just a vegetarian diet, I mean they had to eat something in order to survive didn't they?
Also, all the animals ate plants and herbs (1:30)
So, as plants are alive, this idea that nothing died before the Fall is simply untrue.
I often wonder what whales ate under this unbiblical fundamentalist scenario.
Brian.
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