Posted on 12/15/2010 5:17:34 AM PST by ImProudToBeAnAmerican
“For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day.” (Exodus 20:11a KJV)
According to evolutionary scientists, the earth is over 4 billion years old; but Biblical chronology dates the age of the earth at about 6,000 years. In an attempt to reconcile the two extreme positions, many creation scientists have used 2 Peter 3:8 to state that the six days mentioned in the Genesis account were not literal 24-hour days. However, if we used the “a day is as a thousand years” formula, we would have the six days of creation plus the day of rest equaling 7,000 years, at most. Hardly a good reconciliation with 4 billion years. So, how old is the earth?...
Fifth article in a series about Creation by Rosemarie Thompson.
Comments welcome!
(Excerpt) Read more at inspiretomorrow.wordpress.com ...
More accurately: Claiming that physical death preceeded sin is biblically illiterate /fundie heresy.
Sorry to break it to you.
To answer yours, two. They didn’t procreate until they were removed from the Garden.
Got it ... Adam and Eve were commanded to be fruitful and multiply ... and Eve didn't get pregnant in a million years?
"Houston we have a problem ..."
DING DING DING.
Correct answer.
However, I was trying to get the 'Bible experts' to answer the question. I often find that 'experts' don't know as much as they 'think' they do.
And I should know. I think I know more than I do.
So? It doesn’t negate the accuracy of what he wrote.
>> Sin didn’t enter the creation until Adam fell, so before the Fall there could be no death.<<
From Gen 1:2 the Bible is talking about the world from that point on. Sin didn’t enter the reconstruction of the earth until Adam fell. The only thing we can really know about the pre Adamic world is what science tells us.
Schroeder is an Astrophysicist. Try reading his entire essay at the link. Being a contrarian has limits ...
Sorry, I have better things to do today than swat flies.
> “Or any answer other than one they don’t want.”
.
On FR, that applies to every post!
I was trying to see if your knowledge of the Bible extended to some of the more obscure references.
Whether one thinks the 'needle' was a gate designed to keep the camels from eating all the family food, or a regular sewing needle, the CONCEPT remains the same.
All generizations can be proven false (including this one).
No, I’ve shown you, via Scriptural support, that physical death was what was unleashed at the Fall. You’re the one who holds to a flawed, man-centric theory. Your continued reference to those who hold a fundamentalist view of the Bible as “biblically illiterate” proves your own Biblical Illiteracy.
1 John 4:20 proves who, and what, you are.
“If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?”
Your ridicule of those who believe God and take His word at it’s word are telling of your own situation.
I have better question. Where were they buried?
He's not a real scientist, he doesn't understand how science works, he doesn't comprehend evolution ... /sarc
For some. For myself, the truth doesn't care who you are.
Indeed I have - translations at least. The Sumerian version was copied by the Babylonians. In fact this tale fits quite well with the accounts in Genesis.
You mean Lilith?
both of them walking around naked and told not to partake of it.
They weren't told they couldn't have sex. They were told only to have sex when God wanted them to (in season, so to speak). This was so that birth would be in harmony with the seasons, and the Universe.
Adam and Eve listened to the serpent (the lust) in themselves and decided different. That is why God told Eve that women would have pain in childbirth from then on. That is the 'punishment' for procreating at will, and no longer 'listening' to God.
At least, that's what I read.
Perhaps you can read and translate Sumerian cuneiform. If so, I have some passages from The Epic I need some help with.
I can’t say I agree or disagree on this one, I’ve not studied it very much as my focus is usually on other areas of the Bible.
It might be kind of surprising considering how vocal I’ve been here, but the creation isn’t my strong point. I’ve studied it quite a bit, but not nearly as much as some other areas of the Bible.
>> However, I was trying to get the ‘Bible experts’ to answer the question.<<
If you believe that small gate interpretation could you please find any proof that there was ever any such gate called the “eye of the needle”? No one else seems to have found any proof, I was hoping maybe you had.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.