(Biblical Tetragramaton;25594)
Dear Kriss,That is a most interesting proposition indeed, and I thank you for it. However, I find it partially disingenuous again, and here's why. First, you have now remodeled the literal account of Genesis, and perhaps one might say even mutilated it, so as to make it, presumably, line up better with the facts. However, you continue to ignore the empirical evidence which comes directly against this position as well.Allow me to give you an example. First, you don't see the phrase coming from the Psalmist, and quoted By Peter, of a day being as a thousand years, as a poetic term, which it clearly is. However, I'll allow, if only for the sake of argument, that it is meant to apply as a literal understanding of experienced causality from the Divine perspective.How, might I ask, did God create vegetation a thousand years before creating the sun?
Well as I said you will listen to traditions of men even thou there is no facts to back up what they sayIf you would bother to check the facts the Hebrew will tell the youIn the Hebrew translation of the word, "was", as used in this verse "...the earth was without form,..."; in the original text it reads "became without form...". This same mistranslation of the word "became", and turning it into the word "was" is also present in Genesis 2:7. It should read there; "..and man became a living soul." Now how do you become something if you were not something before????(try using grey matter here:))The correct Hebrew translation from the Massoretic Hebrew text for the words, "without form" is "tohu-va bohu" in the Hebrew Strong's dictionary. So we see that the earth was not "created without form", but it "became [tohu] without form and void". Lets go to Strong's Hebrew dictionary, reference number 1961 to verify the word "was", that we read in this verse. "Yahah, haw-yaw; a prime root, to exit; to become, or come to pass." [#1961] Now lets continue in the Strong's Hebrew dictionary to get the true meaning for the word "void". # 2258, on page 36 tells us that we have to go to # 2254 for the prime on the meaning of this word "void". # 2254; "Chabal, khaw-bal; to wind tightly as a rope, to bind, to pervert, destroy, to corrupt, spoil, travail," This corresponds with its other use in # 2255, which reads; "to ruin"."Tohu" of the earth, then means that total destruction had come to pass upon the earth. The second "was" in the verse is in italics type because there is no verb "to be" in the Hebrew language. One of the problems in translating the Hebrew into English is that the verb, "to be" is not distinguished from the verb, "to become".At the end of Genesis 1:1 the first earth age ceased to exist in its previous form. God created the earth to be inhabited, and then He destroyed it. There was an entire earth age that existed between verses one and two of Genesis. This first earth age is spoken of in II Peter, Jeremiah, Proverbs, and Jude. However I used the Wyclff Bible here because it best denotes the Hebrew and Englishand if you read it it will answer your question2 Peter 3:5 But it is hid from them willing this thing, that heavens were before, and the earth of water was standing by water, by God's word [that heavens were first, and the earth of water and by water being, or standing, together by God's word]; 6 by which [things] that same world cleansed, then by water perished. (the heavens and the earth perished ) Where does it say the sun didnt exist if animals exist so did vegetation isnt that why we have oil and such things?7 But the heavens that now be, and the earth, be kept by the same word, and be reserved to fire into the day of doom and perdition of wicked men. [Forsooth the heavens that now be, and the earth, by the same word put again, be kept to fire into the day of doom and perdition of unpious men.] 8 But, ye most dear, this one thing be not hid to you [be not unknown], that one day with God is as a thousand years, and a thousand years be as one day [and a thousand years as one day]. wycliff BibleAnd as far as the thousand years its the same old story deny God because he tells you the exact truth because some man said different Peter said 1000 years to man is one day with lord,1 day with the Lord is a thousand years to man He repeats it twice Gods whole word is based in numbers they are extremly important in understaning certain things yet because you have decided for No biblical reason Peter was making some obscure nonliteral meaning. for what purpose??He specifically says this was hiddden information he was departing wisdom yet for some reason he must be making up the hidden info and not telling us anything. And you accuse me of butchering the Word. What scripture do you base your assumption it isnt literal time on.?But hey lets ignore the Word and common sense Men in all their wisdom have said God is wrong.
