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121 | When did God create angels? | Gen 1:1 | Lionstrong | 37684 | ||
Now that's an interesting thought, Jensen, angels not a part of this creation. Of course there's absolutely no support for it in Scripture. But it might do for a "thought experiment," as one Christian philosopher used to put it. Peace, Lionstrong |
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122 | The Bible and Science, #1 | Gen 1:1 | Lionstrong | 48394 | ||
Dear Parable, What other theories does the science of Cosmology suggest? Peace, |
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123 | Earth before it was finished | Gen 1:2 | Lionstrong | 6520 | ||
The treatment of Gen 1:2 is an example of how sometimes we religious people get stupid. In any other book we would see a passage like Gen. 1:1 for what it is, an introductory statement to the six day creation account. Gen. 1:2 and following is the development of that theme. But with this book we forget what we learned in high school literature, and every other word becomes a "symbol" for something else. The Bible is no longer the Holy Book, it's a Holy Quarry from which anyone may dig out all kinds of fanciful ideas, as long as they call them spiritual, like the fanciful practice of numerology. Gen. 1:2 describes the earth before God finished His work five days later. The earth did not become void after it was created; that was the way God created it on the first day of creation. When God finished the work of creation, it was suitable for habitation (Isa. 45:18), but not before, that is, on the first day. Peter, of course, is not separationg Gen. 1:1 from Gen. 1:2. A fanciful notion is read into and distorts his otherwise straightforward statements about the "old days" between creation and the Flood (2 Peter 3:4-5). The earth being formed out of water is simply the third day of creation (Gen 1:9). The "time" in v. 6 is that "long ago" period starting with, and not before, the six day creation and going on to the Flood. There WAS no before! "In the beginning" (Gen 1 and John 1) is the beginning of the only creation of heaven and earth recorded in Gen. 1. It is not the beginning of some other creation for which there is no record; that is, if one is reading the Word as a real book. We are still awaiting the creation of a new heaven and earth (2 Peter 3:13, Rev. 21:1). Of this bizarre treatment of the words of Scripture one will find no example among the NT writers. One may find Paul making analogous parallels with historical events in the OT, or giving fresh application to some sayings, but one doen not see Paul or other NT writers or Christ play symbol games with the words of Scripture. |
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124 | The GAP theory could be true. | Gen 1:2 | Lionstrong | 20025 | ||
Dear CDBJ, The catastrophe, of course was the Flood. There's no evidence that pitch was found in great abundance in the days of Noah. Noah did find enough to finish the ark though. Peace, Lionstrong |
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125 | The GAP theory could be true. | Gen 1:2 | Lionstrong | 20032 | ||
Dear CDBJ, ............. Since the universe is less than a million years old, this proves that it does not take millions of years for petroleum to form. Therefore there was pitch before the Flood (maybe not in great quantities) and the gap theory is impossible. ............. Peace, Lionstrong | ||||||
126 | The GAP theory could be true. | Gen 1:2 | Lionstrong | 20108 | ||
Dear CDBJ, The surest method of understanding Scripture is to compare Scripture with Scripture, because the authoritative interpreter of Scripture is Scripture. Therefore to determine if the verb in Gen. 1:2 is "was" or "became" look at what the Scripture says about creation. What Scripture says is that God created EVERYTHING in the space of six days. Ex. 20:11 Therefore the verb is "was" not "became." Thanks for you detailed explanation of the gap theory, CDBJ, but it is not possible. Peace, Lionstrong |
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127 | Light before light sources | Gen 1:3 | Lionstrong | 5973 | ||
It's interesting that light was created before light sources (sun, moon, stars). | ||||||
128 | Chronology of Creation | Gen 1:3 | Lionstrong | 66000 | ||
Hello Emmaus, "...time itself is measured by it [light]." Rather than saying that time is measure by light, would it not be more correct to say that time is measure by the luminaries? Gen 1:14 Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and FOR SEASONS AND FOR DAYS AND YEARS; [my caps] Gen 1:15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so. Gen 1:16 God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also. Gen 1:17 God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, It is interesting to note that light (Gen 1:3) was created before the luminaries. Peace, |
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129 | Darkness: an Effect or Substance? | Gen 1:4 | Lionstrong | 6005 | ||
Hi Charis This is my belief too, though the wording here and in Isa 45:7 gives me pause. Thanks, Lionstrong |
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130 | Darkness: an Effect or Substance? | Gen 1:4 | Lionstrong | 6644 | ||
Satisfaction is a wonderful thing! I notice the insertion of "thereby." While apparently fitting for light and darkness, it does not fit for well-being and calamity. For creating calmity God took active steps, witness, the plagues of Egypt. "Gymnastics" Exercise is a wonderful thing too:-) |
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131 | What did light look like, I wonder. | Gen 1:4 | Lionstrong | 6647 | ||
Before God put the light into light sources, I wonder how it looked. (I'm assuming He put light into light sources. The narrative of chapter one does not say.) What would you have seen if you were standing - correction, there was no land at this point, swimming - on the earth? If you looked right, would you have seen a formless brightness that faded into a totally black empty space as you looked left? Was the light something physical? Was it contained in some enomously massive white-hot cloud of nuclear fusic (sp?) reaction? That's what people believe the sun is. Whatever it was, it must have been fantastic to see! After all, "God saw that the light was good!" | ||||||
132 | Darkness: an Effect or Substance? | Gen 1:4 | Lionstrong | 6669 | ||
I see, and agree. | ||||||
133 | What did light look like, I wonder. | Gen 1:4 | Lionstrong | 7991 | ||
Yes, Nolan, but even now it's wonderful to contemplate it! The evolutionists wonder at the "big bang" which never happened. We can wonder at our true beginning. He spoke and it was! | ||||||
134 | The heavens are part of this creation | Gen 1:8 | Lionstrong | 13186 | ||
In v. 1 it reads God created the heavens. In this verse I note that God called the firmament (NKJV) or expanse heaven. In v. 1 heaven is plural and in v. 8 it's singular. In v. 8 is the naming of the physical (visible) heaven. Just as God created all things in the visible world, that is, in heaven and earth, He also created all things in the invisible world, that is, in one of the other heavens. God created the heavens in the beginning. Although the focus (as is with the rest of Scripture) is on Man and his environment, the invisible world (one of the other heavens) was created in the beginning too, not before the beginning. In the Scripture God directs our attention to our own practical interests, Man and his environment. (I'll never finish re-reading the Bible at this rate!) The focus, therefore, is on the creation of Man and his environment, and not on the creation of the other heavens and not on the creation of the other heavens and the creatures that inhabit them (although it is mentioned here to inform us of its origin). But again the heavens and all they contain were also made "In the beginning." In other words, the unseen world of the other heavens are part of this creation, not a part of a supposed first creation which was destroyed. V. 9 strengthens this notion of one creation by using the plural, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered in to one place..." |
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135 | One land mass? | Gen 1:9 | Lionstrong | 13604 | ||
Dear Steve, From this passage I see a possible single land mass, but there's no indication that there were no seasons of the year before the Flood. Where's the Scripture that would support an earth tilt? (I take it that the 23.5 degrees means the angle of earth's axis from the sun.) The waters above and below the earth were already there when God brought the Flood, and somehow God triggered it, but what would cause the earth to tilt, if it wasn't already tilted? And how would the tilt cause the break up of the one land mass and cause continental drift? I had assumed the one land mass broke up when the foundations of the great deep burst open. (Gen. 7:11) Peace, Lionstrong |
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136 | One land mass? | Gen 1:9 | Lionstrong | 13718 | ||
Dear Nolan, It is possible for the Bible to treat "in passing" what we might consider to be very significant, don't you think? Case in point: we are very impressed with the vastness of the universe with its kazillion stars flung out unimaginable distances. But in the creation account the significance is given to man's immediate environment, the earth, and of the kazillion stars Moses says, "he made the stars also! What an understatement! So here, the aftermath of a great judgement on man, the concern is not with geology, as significant as it might be to us, and so it (the breaking up of the one landmass) is only mentioned in passing. One other reason that it might be given only a passing reference is that it wasn't an act of God, but only a consequence of a previous event, like when God turned the water to blood, it mentions that the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water. Peace, Lionstrong |
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137 | One land mass? | Gen 1:9 | Lionstrong | 13760 | ||
Very interesting! Thanks, Nolan. Lionstrong | ||||||
138 | One land mass? | Gen 1:9 | Lionstrong | 13764 | ||
You might be right, Nolan, because although the Bible has the only accurate account of the the Flood one finds perversions of this account world wide. I don't know, but are there accounts of the landmass break up after the Flood? If there aren't, it would be good negative evidence that the break up occurred during the Flood and not after. Peace, Lionstrong | ||||||
139 | God's naming | Gen 1:10 | Lionstrong | 13649 | ||
Interesting: This and other verses in the creation account. God gave names to certain things in his creation. He left it to man to name the animals. 2: 19. In Isa 40:26, God knows the number of stars and calls them all by name. The naming of something is a special event. Lionstrong |
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140 | God's naming | Gen 1:10 | Lionstrong | 13763 | ||
God gives names several times throughtout Scripture, the most important of course is: MattĀ 1:21 "She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins. Peace, LIonstrong | ||||||
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