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NASB | Genesis 2:2 By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 2:2 And by the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested (ceased) on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. [Heb 4:9, 10] |
Subject: creation |
Bible Note: Hi Brad These are just some other thoughts on the matter, yes it does say the evening, and the day, which we take to be 24 hrs. But God spoke things into being, except the Man, and the Woman. Are we then to believe it took our Sovereign God, 6 literal days to speak, when He could speak it all in one breath? Therefore if He chose to take the literal 6 days by the 24 hr. clock, couldn't he as easily have stretched that 24 hrs. to be thousands of yrs. to fulfill His purpose? I'm not in any way trying to defend or speak for this ("Theistic evolution") theory as you call it. I never heard of it before you mentioned it. But do we blindly discount all of the Geological findings? When we know from looking at a volcano, that it takes thousands of yrs. to make an Island like Hawaii, and the others. One thing more, just when does time as we know it, actually begin, upon the creation of the SUN, or upon the creation of the MAN, he is the one that is aware of the passage of time, to me time does not exist without the comprehension of time. In the same way, If a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one there to hear it, is there a sound? NO, because there is the requirement for the person to be present, other wise there is just NOISE, with the person hearing it, it becomes sound, because it is comprehended as a tree falling. Man was created on the sixth day, not day one. Gen 2:4 (KJV) These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, If we are to take the creation story literally as you believe, a literal seven day period of time, how then do the (Heavens, and Earth) have (Generations)? Gen 2:4 (NASB) This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven. If we are to take the creation story literally as you believe, a literal seven day period of time, how then are we to understand ("in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.") according to the Theory of Literal thinking, then God created everything in (One Day). 2Pe 3:8 (KJV) But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. How do we take this verse literally, if one day is as one thousand years, could this then mean, the (Heavens, and Earth) were created in (Six Thousand Years)? 2 Pet. 3:8 (NASB) But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. Or are we to understand that the (One Thousand Years) referred to, would mean (No Definite Time) at all, in the same way that Jesus said to Peter. Mat 18:22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. When we take this to mean a literal (Seventy Times Seven) then after four hundred ninety times of turning our cheek we then are allowed to hit back. But we know that Jesus was saying always turn the other cheek no end of taking the hit. Or this which was spoken by Jesus, do we take it literally as well? Mat 5:29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. Seems like we would have a lot of blind Christians walking around. Grace be unto you lightedsteps |