I fail to see how it matters whether you agree or not, unless you are a scholar of the Hebrew language.
Why would you repeat this argument? Do you not understand that the N.T. is written in Greek, while Genesis is written in Hebrew, so the same word is not being translated?>>>>>
True but it has all been translated into English by translators who were ordained by God for the Chore.
I don`t have to spend hours in the dictionary every time I read a verse in the Bible.
Gen 2 says generations and you say it is not a continuation but an explanation.
Even if that is what it was it would still be instilling the idea that the six day creation was not literal for those who think it is literal.
And if it is to be taken literally some one could rightly say that it all happened in one day.
Do you not understand that God had the Bible translated into English so that we do not have to try to figure it all out by going to a language we do not understand?
“No I am not a scholar.”
Then maybe we should defer to scholars to find out the definitions of Hebrew words, eh?
“True but it has all been translated into English by translators who were ordained by God for the Chore.”
How exactly do you know that English translators were ordained by God?
“I don`t have to spend hours in the dictionary every time I read a verse in the Bible.”
No, and you really shouldn’t because most statements in the Bible are fairly easy to translate clearly. However, if there is a conflict arising from a translation, you might want to spend a few minutes to consult a reference to see if it can easily be cleared up.
“Gen 2 says generations and you say it is not a continuation but an explanation.
Even if that is what it was it would still be instilling the idea that the six day creation was not literal for those who think it is literal.
And if it is to be taken literally some one could rightly say that it all happened in one day.”
No, not if one keeps in mind the very important principle that God didn’t contradict himself when He wrote the Bible. If someone attempts to read that section of Genesis as a single day, then they have created a contradiction with other statements in the Bible that clearly state that God accomplished it all in six days. So, since the contradiction couldn’t come from God, it must come from their interpretation, and therefore, their interpretation invalidates itself.
“Do you not understand that God had the Bible translated into English so that we do not have to try to figure it all out by going to a language we do not understand?”
How do you know this? How do you know which translation God wants us to use? Or is any English translation to be automatically assumed to be authorized by God? What about conflicting translations? Or conflicts between English translations and translations in other languages? How can we resolve those without referencing the original texts?
Your answer, on its face, may seem to give an “easy way out” of studying the Bible more deeply, but it really just creates more problems than it solves.