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If Genesis 1 was fiction, Christ would have corrected. When God drew me to Himself, I had many questions and doubts. I could not readuly accept the OT stories, so I started woth the NT and believed. Once I was a firm believer in Christ I then alproached the OT differently. I figured if it was...

Without form and void just means It was like a large molten rock, without mountains, oceans and of life. Then he formed it. Void > no life. We see beauty when we look at mountains, oceans, valleys, streams, flowers. The Bible simply states there was none of that. Man was void of spiritual life...

As I said, I do not discern any symbolism in the first two chapters of the Bible. The Creation account is to be understood literally, and that God created the universe. It is not some subjective illusion. This is one of life's biggest questions? How did this universe and specifically life...

@marks, I hope you don't mind me adding some scriptures to your list. This a very important topic and study. "But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts 1:8 We...

I realize half of Christianity ( mostly Catholics) buy into this Theistic Evolution, where God started things out and then let evolution take its course. This is the problem. That view does not and can not harmonize with Genesis 1 & 2; which is why they must change the meaning ... "They aren't...

So there it is, you claim that a literal interpretation of Genesis 1:1 and I presume even both chapters 1 & 2 is foolishness. Okay, we'll let it go for a time, times and a half of time.

As I noted, there is symbolic language throughout the Bible, but the creation account is not. It is given to us to answer the question: Where did this physical universe and life come from? Genesis chapters 1 and 2 are to be taken literally. I don't find any symbolism in them. Chapter 3 has a few...

God is simply telling us that He created the physical universe and everything in it. The spiritual aspect of it is that God did it, outside of our physical realm, supernaturally and with love. Nothing else is to be derived from the first sentence. There are signs, parables and lots of symbolism...

Here is how I discern the first verse of the Bible in as few worda as possible: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And I know what that means naturally and spiritually.

You speak lots of words but say little. You are adding symbolism (signs and parables) where they don't belong. You brought up the word "created" and then went off. Let's try this. Take the first sentence of the Bible and as simply as you can put it, what does it mean? Is it to be taken...

You are going off on a tangent! That is the kicker. "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." The universe did not exist, then God created it and it did. What is so difficult to understand? It wasn't there and six days later, it was - with a planet filled with life. It sounds...

You do realize that Robert is a Jehovah Witness? They believe in soul sleep, that Hades is the grave and that when a person dies, they no longer are conscious and really don't exist anymore, only in God's mind. Then after the Millennial Kingdom, their bodies are resurrected and then God wakes...

Judge not UNLESS you are willing to be judged by the same measures that you judge. Don't be a hypocrite. Jesus says, "You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye! We can judge our children and correct them; that...

I am under Grace. Still we are to live clean and decently. There are many don'ts in the NT too. Laws? Well God says not to do many things, live pure and holy lives, avoid cursing, dressing decently. Society has become callous to many things that used to be considered taboo or in bad taste. That...

Well I guess He was just talking to the Jews then. ?? Hmmm How about cutting your flesh for the dead? One of your loved ones dies and you make cut in your flesh -- cool? How about these tribal people that really go all out with piercings, deforming lips, etc. Has God talked to you about those...

Leviticus 19:28 KJV Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord. I was taught Deuteronomy and Leviticus did not apply to Christians. But I can't get by this one. It seems God does not approve of tatoos?

I did. I guess you didn't like what I said since I didn't entirely agree with you.

There is a difference between common faith that the world has ( the sun will rise and set, my mother will feed me ... this carton has milk in it - it says so and also the myriad of life's occurrences. When things almost always happen a certain way, we can base our faith on the reliability of...

This is not that complicated a concept. And it's not solved by the test of grammar. It is good to get the Concordance out but this one needs to be experienced. Life and death can be read about in a book and explained in words but we need to experience life and death to know. WE NEEDED TO KNOW...

The Bible alone? As far as the written words of God, the Bible is sufficient. "And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen." John 21:25 Imagine that Jesus...