Brakelite
Well-Known Member
So your evidence is so called science? Did you not declare the scriptures as the foundation of faith and practise? Now you are using science to interpret and define what scripture is saying? Theistic evolution is a very sad and pathetic biblically illiterate and faithless description of how God created.Who said it was bereft of evidence? The scriptures and established science tell us that the earth was not created along with the Universe only 6,000 years ago. There were no dinosaurs on the ark. The earth has been in existence for way longer that YEC's claim and they cannot account for extinct species whose remains have been found and identified as perhaps hundreds of thousands if not million of years old. There is no evidence that man and dinosaurs co-existed on this planet.
Science does not argue with the Bible if God invented the things that true and established science studies.
The creation account is divided into 6 periods of time that God called "days"....in Hebrew that word has a much broader meaning that just 24 hours. Each of those periods could have been millions of years long...an infinite God does not live in earth time and he has his own agenda in creation, taking as long as he needed to created each and every living thing. God is not a magician....his creations are his careful and well thought out plans of action....taking all the time he needed to get things just right.....and don't we see that in creation?
The "days" God took to fulfill each one's own agenda were completed to God's satisfaction right up to the end of the 6th day, which with the creation of mankind, was said to be "very good"....what does "very good" mean to God? Everything was just as he planned it to be....perfect.
But the day of rest would be like all the other days....not 24 hours long, but periods of time where material creating was finished, but God's work was not finished at all. (John 5:17) He now had an indefinite period of time for all contingencies to be worked out regarding the gift of free will.....if it was abused, then God would have to deal with it....and he was ready for whatever happened. Again, time was needed to sort things out so that at the end of the 7th day a declaration could again be made as to it success. Why do you think there is no declaration ending the 7th day? Because it had to run its course and serve its purpose, like all the other "days". It will end when God's "will is done on earth as it is in heaven"....the coming of God;s Kingdom will take a thousand earth years to accomplish a successful conclusion to the entire creative process. Stand back...and look up.
You believe what the Bible actually says is describing magic? There were times in the past where I thought your posts exhibited summer thoughtful perspectives, but now I'm lost for words.
The fall of man brought death to creation. You have reversed the sequence and claim death actually assisted in the creation of man.
KJV Psalms 33:6-9
6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
9 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.