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To: editor-surveyor

Old Earth propaganda have nothing to do with science.
Wrong , it has everything to do with science. There are generally accepted proven facts. Why must people insist that 7 days meant real 24 hours days in the Bible. 7 was used as a symbolic number. It’s the MESSAGE of the bible that is important not particular numbers. What is somewhere in the Bible it mentioned flat earth. Would you have to believe in a flat earth JUST because people in those days believed it was so ?People didn’t know science then ..that’s all there is ..


104 posted on 06/04/2009 12:52:16 PM PDT by sonic109
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To: sonic109
Why must people insist that 7 days meant real 24 hours days in the Bible. 7 was used as a symbolic number. It’s the MESSAGE of the bible that is important not particular numbers. What is somewhere in the Bible it mentioned flat earth. Would you have to believe in a flat earth JUST because people in those days believed it was so ?

I believe in the infallibility of Scripture. So I would insist 7 days meant 7 days if I could be convinced that's what the author intended. But Jewish and Christian scholars for 2000 years have been wondering about that "day" and speculating there is more to that day than meets the eye--and this is before modern cosmology. So I see no reason to force a literal interpretation on it.

God created the world, and He told us how through both Scripture and science. Any contradiction between the two must be only apparent, due to our limited understanding.

106 posted on 06/04/2009 1:09:12 PM PDT by Claud
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The Bible goes out of its way to show that the days of creation were normal days. The proof is spread throught the Bible, and given by numerous writers. We finally have the Lord himself stating the same.

Only a denier of the truth of God’s word would even wish to make them anything else.

There is nothing that science has revealed that would indicate that the world is any older than the information in God’s word indicates. All dating ‘clocks’ are based in assumptions that have no provable basis. The assumptions are the creations of those that reject God’s word. You cannot call that science; its deception.


115 posted on 06/04/2009 3:05:21 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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