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..... a little proof reading wouldn't hurt....
Sorry, it's my cell phone's fault, his buttons are too small for my fingers. I gotta get over to my desk top, he is more cooperative.. Ususally I look it over ... I will make an extra effort.
I am taking the Bible literally....but I am working with the meaning of the original language word....which wasn't English.
The Hebrew word for "day" is "yom" and it has a range of meanings. So
Genesis 2:4 uses "yom" to describe all of creation as occurring in one "day".....so here we have an example of the usage.....not just a 24 hour day.
Do you have a Phd in Bible Hermeneutics, ancient Hebrew and Koene Greek? Or at least a Masters degree in Judaism or Christian theology? If not please don't pretend you know how exegete the ancient languages. The work of translating the scriptures has been done already by loads of brilliant scholars ... and neither you nor I are included in that group. Access Bible Gateway and you will see at least 50 English versions. I use about eight of them regularly.
The specific details in Gen. 1 defines the word "yom".
The Bible's truth was distorted so long ago that most people today wouldn't have a clue as to what is Bible truth and what is not.
Jesus' parable of the "wheat and the weeds" was given to tell us that this would happen....and it wasn't recent.
Many Christians know the truth and with most of us, at least the essentials. I believe half of the Body of Christ have fallen for this Theistic Evolution and so are deceived. They must distort Genesis somehow to accomodate their science. Okay, you said you did not believe this, but you are believing their dating methods which are flawed (Carbon-14 , Potasium Argon)
The Restrainer of Evil is the Holy Spirit. When He and the Church are taken out of the way, then the Antichrist will be revealed. All this happens soon, so it is future; and therefore not applicable to the past.
It doesn't say that the luminaries were "created" on day four.....it says that God "made" them to shine on that day. The word "created" is not used in those verses.
Yes it does. Each day the Bible describes His specific acts of creation in an orderly and timely way. Each day and its events are separate from the other.
1 "
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
> That is an opening statement, a topical sentence that summarizes His work. In general terms, He created everything. Then the details follow ...
2 "The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters."
>> He created the earth first, void (meaning no life); without form (meaning without order and geographical and biological details as we see it). It was pretty much a mixture of elements, solids, water, molten lava, etc.
3 "
Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light." ...[From verse 2 - 5 He accomplished on Day 1]
>>So we see that God spoke, "Let there be light". He created Physical light with waves and particles, colors ...
The word creation does not have to be there, it is implied. Let there be light and there was light.m- created. With each day we see this creative power in specific and separate acts.
6 "
Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” ... [through verse 8 on Day 2]
9 "Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so." 10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
11 "
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so." ... [to verse 13 on Day 3]
>> All the botanicals were created on day 3, they could not survive without the sun for millions of years. They only had to wait until God created the sun on the next day.
14 "
Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16 Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 17 God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day."
>> We see a clear definition of a day here. The sun created for the day and the moon for the night = 1 Day, (24 hours)
20
Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens. 21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind." ... [verses 20-23 on Day 5]
24
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that [h]moves on the earth.”
>>He created all land animals (including Dinosaurs) and man on Day 6.
m sorry...what????
What did I miss?......you mean to tell me that trees and vegetation were designed to live forever without dying? Were animals? Did they sin so as to have everlasting life taken away from them like humans? Please explain.....
Death did not exist before Adam and Eve's sin. Death did not just effect our physical and spiritual lives, the earth was also cursed.
What once was a perfect environment, death was introduced to the Garden and the rest of the earth. Distortions within the genetic codes, causing mutations, bad bacteria, viruses and all sorts of diseases began. Death was introduced to every organic cell with the original sin.
Someday death will be eliminated. Cells just won't die. Everything will be eternal, no decay.