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Old 12-12-2001, 06:16 AM   #1
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Post The Bible, young Earth and time

It seems that Christians that support the young earth theory base this belief off of Genesis where the universe was created in 6 days. They literally intepret the passages in the Bible as being 6 actual days (24 hour periods.) Here with verse 5:

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God called the light "day" and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning - the first day.
However, it wasn't until the 16th verse that God created the the sun and the moon:

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God made two great lights-the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night.
Now, how is it certain that the first "evening" and "morning" was a 24 hour Earth day? If the sun hadn't been created yet, then it is impossible for a 24 hour earth day to even exist.

Here is another curosity regarding the "days" and time in general. Verse 27:

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So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
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God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning - the sixth day.
From verse 27 to 31 you can conclude either of two things:

1) God created man - both male and female that existed slightly before Adam and Eve. That would mean that Adam and Eve were not the first humans and were simply two individuals that God had chosen to personally pay interests to.

2) The verses are "jumping ahead" a bit by describing what would become after Adam and Eve gained the knowledge of good and evil. However, the Bible clearly defines that it all happened on the 6th day (creating mankind - male and female), so again, perhaps this "day" wasn't a 24 hour period, but some other definition of time.

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All theories that try to find the logic in Genesis are shakier than your name.
Theres my opinion.

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Old 12-12-2001, 08:22 AM   #3
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<strong>All theories that try to find the logic in Genesis are shakier than your name.
Theres my opinion.

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Old 12-12-2001, 08:36 AM   #5
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Originally posted by ShakyJake:
<strong>It seems that Christians that support the young earth theory base this belief off of Genesis where the universe was created in 6 days. They literally intepret the passages in the Bible as being 6 actual days (24 hour periods.) Here with verse 5:



From verse 27 to 31 you can conclude either of two things:

1) God created man - both male and female that existed slightly before Adam and Eve. That would mean that Adam and Eve were not the first humans and were simply two individuals that God had chosen to personally pay interests to.

2) The verses are "jumping ahead" a bit by describing what would become after Adam and Eve gained the knowledge of good and evil. However, the Bible clearly defines that it all happened on the 6th day (creating mankind - male and female), so again, perhaps this "day" wasn't a 24 hour period, but some other definition of time.

Thoughts and opinions?

-ShakyJake</strong>
Good points Jake. Adam and Eve were not created until Gen.3. Notice that they were never "formed" to have an existence of being.

God created and still creates the essence of man on the androgyne image of male and female.

Adam and Eve were the first humans because God created man. It is the prefix -hu that reduced man to become an earhtly being after the image of the tree of knowledge (-hu is from humus). This makes and confirms that man is a heavenly creature if you allow me to place heaven opposite to earth.

In Gen.1 only the essence of man was created that comes full circle in Gen.2 after Lord God 'made his round' on the seventh day, which is the day on which evening did not follow the day.

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<strong>Amos said:
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Why not? You do have a certain flair.</strong>
Well thanks marduck. I can write the way I do because I will never get stuck for an answer.
 
 

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