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To: DannyTN

No, Genesis 1 should be read in light of Gen 2:4 which explicitly says that a "day" is not a 24 hr literal day, but an indefinite period of time.

Why would God need to create the animals out of the ground if they were already there?

For the Bible to inform us about God's will, it must be interpreted in a consistent manner that takes into account milleu, genre and culture. The literalism you espouse satisfies none of this and get hopelessly entangled in a web of deception.


272 posted on 02/28/2005 2:54:37 PM PST by shubi (Peace through superior firepower.)
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To: shubi
"Why would God need to create the animals out of the ground if they were already there? "

The information conveyed in Gen 2 is that God made the animals out of the ground. It's not conveying when God made them. That was conveyed in Gen 1. Gen 2 is adding additional information.

"The literalism you espouse satisfies none of this and get hopelessly entangled in a web of deception"

Then why does God warn us in 2 Peter 3 that people would forget the flood and creation? And who are these people anyway. It looks to me from all the other signs that we are in or near the last days. Who are the people who forgot creation?

274 posted on 02/28/2005 3:08:32 PM PST by DannyTN
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Fo-foe. Danny would be the other side of that pissing contest I referred to earlier.
276 posted on 02/28/2005 3:13:51 PM PST by tx_eggman (You guys are .... checker players in the chess game of life.)
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