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NASB | Genesis 1:27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:27 So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them. [Col 3:9, 10; James 3:8, 9] |
Subject: Creation Account: Mythical or Not? |
Bible Note: Having experienced the Living Word I am not in a condition to need to find any scientific proofs for the Creation story of Genisis. However if I could put myself in the shoes of an honest intellectual who wants to know whether or not he can rely on the scientific accuracy of Genesis or if it is a story far removed from the original account that contains some hints of the original but not to be taken literally I would start my investigation in the area of archealogy, astronomy, and geology, and see if there are evidences of the account that Genesis gives. We will learn that as it relates to the way stars are born their is the possibility of light before the actual formation of the sun just like this account gives, we find that the order of creation, water, land, vegetaion,etc agrees with scientific knowledge on the order of the way things came about, we see that there are archaelogical finds in the oldest civilizations such as the sumerians (same area as Babylon but older) that extend to the time of nimrod after the flood that reveal stories and records of a flood, and also possible first man and woman stories associated with a serpent, However the stories in babylonia is childish and grotesquely ridiculous showing, that it was a corruption from the original, where as the Genesis account is logical and perfect in its concepts, therefore would be the original story, and the others found in archaelogy are corruptions. So in short, the Bible's account of creation has never needed correction, and remains the same century after century, but the theories proposed by men have changed constantly and continue to do so, and even in the light of the constant changes (some as drastic as revising the time it takes a planet to form, from billions of years to only 3 million which was presented last week)even in the light of these kind of radical changes in view, the arrogant man will attempt to compare the genisis account with their current ideas and judge the Genisis account as fact or fiction based on the current fantasy. However the interesting thing is that the theories of modern science keep changing in favor of the Biblical account. 3 million years is a lot longer than 6 days but not as much as the billions they once held to. The hubble space telescope is sugesting to the observers that the earth might indeed be the center of the universe and that all things are expanding away from it. Go figure. May God Bless You as You Study His Word. |