(Joh 1:3) All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being.
You know as well as I that Moses (through inspiration of the Holy Spirit) wrote Genesis, not Adam.
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to be clearly understood by his people through all generations, learned and unlearned, untechnical yet accurate.
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Those so called sciences have been very fluid, especially since evolutionary theory has taken hold...See post #1 (esp point #9) of this thread challenging long cherished assumptions of the scientific community.
Nope, I'd rather stick with what is written and not traipse off into the speculative.
If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that God created the Heavens and the Earth regardless of how long it took. John 1 talks about “the Word.” The Word is actually Jesus and explains how the Word was with God from the beginning and through Him all things were made. Creation itself is Christlike because it was made through Jesus. Since nature and God’s creation is Christlike, then Job 12:7-10 is true when it says,..... “
“But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;
8 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you.
9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
10 In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.”
Many choose to ignore climate change because they feel it does not line up with the Bible. However, if nature can tell us things straight from God, maybe he’s trying to tell us something through climate change.
Now as I said..........I may be completely wrong and all are welcome to ignore my ramblings, but over the years I have come to realize that
If the biblical explanations of creation were at the level, say, of 20th century understnading, it would likely be unintelligible to everyone, including scientists today. This could scarcely have been God's intention. He wished His meaning to be accessible to all especially for those in the days that the Creation story was given. NO ONE in that day even knew what a human cell was or a bacteria much less the Universe.
So then, keeping our faith in Christ in tact, is it then a possibility that the seven days of creation were written as a framework that might then indicate that there is more to the text than ordered sequence.????
Just consider..... what Genesis !:1 says LITERALLY = "In the 'the beginning'!
Is there something there that necessarily makes creation of the Earth take place in day one as is frequently assumed.
Could there be an opportunity to say that The initial creation took place before day???
A delayed beginning separate from God's day one separation of the light from the darkness gives readers pause to believe that the earth may have been created long before He began the literal seven, 24-hour days of creation. It also gives the reader pause to further explore the scientific makings of the earth and the universe.