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phosadaud -> RE: Earth Basics (3/14/2008 9:46:23 PM)
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ORIGINAL: drmark
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It tells us that He did but again, it doesn't tell us how. Did He snap his fingers and "poof" everything appeared? Sorry that you're still using that abridged version, phosadaud. Let's see if I can help you out. In Genesis 1 we read that God amar eight times during six days. The original Hebrew word means "say, speak, or command". Coupled with Colossians 1:16, it seems quite evident that Jesus Christ, the Word (John 1:1-3) was the Agent by Which Creator God spoke the universe into existence.
And what does that look like?
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Did He build us up like a clay model? Sculpt us like a sculpture? Well again, it's pretty straightforward in Genesis 2:7 that God formed, fashioned, framed (Hebrew yatsar) Adam from dirt and breathed life into him. No evolution involved!
Funny... I'm still not reading where it shows us what this looks like. And even funnier, evolution would actually say ultimately we would have begun from the dirt as well...
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Slowly over time (since Scripture does not say that each day of creation was a 24 earth day or a God day which Scripture tells us is a lot longer than an earth day) change and tranform until He reached the finished product? No, phosadaud, Moses clearly writes six times "evening and morning, the first through sixth day" so that we can know with certainty the length of creation days. And please don't bother bringing up 2 Peter 3:8 - that is an unmistakeable word simile used to express God's patience in wanting all to be saved.
It doesn't say there was a sunrise and a sunset. It says there was a beginning and an end to that day. Ereb: evening or end of the day. Boqer: morning or beginning of the day. No contradiction.
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We don't know. Sorry, I know what text God inspired Moses to write in His authoritative and inerrant Word. I accept Him at His Word.
It is His authoritative and inerrant Word. Our interpretation sometimes leaves something to be desired.
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Apparently, God didn't find the "how" to be central to our faith. He finds the fact He did to be central. Then why did He spend so much effort on explaining all these details in a way even 19th century BC ex-slaves could understand? How do you pick and choose which passages are "central" and which are fairy tale fiction?
He doesn't explain in detail what His creation of all this looked like as I have shown before. It's a grand total of 1 chapter in Scripture that tells us that God created all of this: He created this, He created that, it was good.
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It's funny how people get so upset over science trying to describe something that Scripture doesn't describe. It's more sad than funny that people get so upset over trying to make man's science fit something that Scripture doesn't describe.
You're correct. Scripture doesn't describe it, so science cannot be trying to "fit" into Scripture. Science is rather looking at something Scripture doesn't describe. It doesn't need to "fit" because it doesn't conflict.
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but rather by someone who calls themselves a "Creationist" which apparently means they must have the authority of Scripture the way folks bow down to their theories... And would you agree Jesus called Himself a "creationist" in Mark 10:6. Or would that be bowing down to "His theory"?
I am a creationist. I am just not a "special" creationist that follows sites like AIG. I believe 100% what Jesus says in Mark 10:6.
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But, I'm the narrowminded one because I believe in Scripture's authority As long as Scripture doesn't contradict neo-Darwinism?
I am actually open to whatever God's creations shows us. Science doesn't have all the answers. It only tries to look at what we know and tries to look at what that tells us about history. Scripture is all Truth but it doesn't tell me how to reboot my computer when it crashes.
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