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To: ColdWater
Strawman. Are you implying that God cannot be the intelligent designer?

Negative. No strawman. God created:

Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Or, if you prefer Hebrew:

1:1בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָֽרֶץ׃

Hebrew: "Bara": 1) to create, shape, form
a) (Qal) to shape, fashion, create (always with God as subject)
1) of heaven and earth
2) of individual man
3) of new conditions and circumstances
4) of transformations
b) (Niphal) to be created
1) of heaven and earth
2) of birth
3) of something new
4) of miracles

19 posted on 02/23/2009 10:35:46 AM PST by rjsimmon (1-20-13)
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To: rjsimmon
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Doesn't say how he created the heaven and earth.

22 posted on 02/23/2009 10:39:06 AM PST by ColdWater
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To: rjsimmon
Hebrew: "Bara": 1) to create, shape, form

Maybe God formed man and shaped him by the process of evolution?

25 posted on 02/23/2009 10:41:19 AM PST by ColdWater
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To: rjsimmon

4) of transformations

What sort of transformations did the Hebrew word include?

How did the Hebrew word mean “shape”?

What “new conditions and circumstances” are included?

What sort of miracles? Are there limits on the size or frequency or type of miracles?

I’m not that familiar with Hebrew.


109 posted on 02/23/2009 11:57:13 AM PST by Ender Wiggin
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