Your thesis confuses me.
On one hand you state that you’re drawing a scientific understanding of creation from Scripture.
On the other hand, you discard what Scripture says and instead regurgitate evolutionary theory and timelines.
I sincerely don’t know what you’re trying to say.
Let me step back and ask a couple of questions. Did Adam have a father, or was he created by God and in His image from the dust? Did death exist before sin? These questions become very problematic if you don’t take Scripture at face value.
On one hand you state that you’re drawing a scientific understanding of creation from Scripture.
Other way around. Scripture clearly states, from thousands of years ago, the understanding we have of the universe now. It is phrased in a way a non-technical society can understand, but it is there.
Let me step back and ask a couple of questions. Did Adam have a father, or was he created by God and in His image from the dust?
Not done Genesis 2 yet. Working on it, and I will, again, be referencing the King James Version. Sorry if that seems a bit of a cop out at the moment, but I don’t particularly like releasing a post before it is ready.
Did death exist before sin?
It did. Why should it not? We all have our allotted term. we are told that. Everything dies in the end - even stars and rocks.
These questions become very problematic if you don’t take Scripture at face value.
I find no real problem with these. Scripture tells us the truth. The evidence of the world shows that it is right. Some people need evidence. While I admire immensely people who simply believe, I am more the proverbial guy from Missouri. “Show me.”
Now God may have pulled the biggest practical joke on us of all time. I find that something I cannot believe. He is the Way, the TRUTH and the Life. He’d not lie.