And if I put a radar image on my computer and sent it out that would also not be a radar image, but they used the WMAP to map all this our with radar. You are just seeing what they saw in a tidier package, you are not arguing the facts that this is a true presentation.
There are many "Edens" in the world. What makes the Eden in the Bible Unique is that it is a Biodiverse Ecosystem that domesticated animals and cultivated plants. Evolution is all about the difference between wild plants and cultivated plants. When man was able to produce more food then the population was able to expand and grow. Some believe the population began with one million people and is over 8 billion today. Even in my lifetime the worlds population has tripled. Not in this country but in places like India and China.
History and science are two different books. The problem is that public schools do not teach history. What they call history I would call current events and revisionism.
No, this is a pure fantasy.
A derogating term. Lets say "people educated in the OT history".
Yes, the author of the 2 Peter refers to the Genesis creation narratives. He did not have access to modern scientific discoveries, so his language is not scientific, but theological.
Mythological stories of creation, the biblical inspiration not being automatic dictation of every word or of every sentence and genealogies not being precise is not "going too far". It changes nothing for Christianity.
Yes, its not complicated.
A proper understanding of Scripture matters. And one can go too far in what they call metaphor and especially mythology in Scripture. Any mythology that resembles what's in Scripture is based on what actually happened in ancient times as recorded in Scripture as revealed to Moses and the Prophets by God. That's what sets Scripture apart from mythology.
They exist in Scripture.
The traditional orthodox understanding of Genesis is the proper way to read it. What you consider the proper way, probably came into existence in the 19th century.
Agreed.
No, if its really a mythology or a metaphor. In such a case this person would go too far claiming its literal.
No, thats not what sets the Old Testament apart from mythology. The OT uses mythology. Its set apart from pagan mythology by separating the creation from deitiy.
Yes, only there.
Unlike heathen scientists who reject God, Peter had direct access to what God knows though Jesus.
Christian scientists. Plenty of them. And they do not reject God. Science as such even is rooted in the Christian culture. Peter had no direct access to what God knows, do not claim crazy absurdities.
You have that backwards. It's claiming something literal in Scripture must be mythology or a metaphor, because it doesn't line up with what the ungodly came up with in the 19th century.
You're using a worldly humanistic view in deciphering what God told Moses and the Prophets.
Because only the word of God is there.
Think for a second. Jesus is God. And Peter spent years in His presence. The idea that Peter received no extraordinary knowledge from that is a crazy absurdity. You downplay Jesus, the Apostles, the Prophets and Moses as being as pedestrian as possible.
Oh yeah, it's all been wrong until a scientific reading of Scripture came along in the 19th century.
Well, you’re just ignoring the evidence I presented. The Hebrew word Yovm is never once used in the Bible referring to anything other than a 24 hour period of time or daytime as opposed to night time. The Hebrews used the word Yovm the same way we use the word day today. The meaning of the word is indicated by grammatical the usage of it and if you paid attention to the verses you quoted you would see that in every single case you provided it is actually used the same way we use the word day in English. The definition your trying to apply to Genesis 1 is not grammatically correct.
“The deep” is the universe? Then why did you omit the other half of that verse?
One person's fantasy is another person's facts. I am only explaining how I see it. You see it differently, and who am I to disparage the way you see it? If I were in your position, I would never be a Christian. I could not. How could I hold to some ridiculous beliefs while dismissing other ridiculous beliefs? How could I, with a straight face, say that God used violence and predation to form humans whom He then commanded to love their enemies?
No, let's call it what it is. Calling those who do not believe in the OT as its face value are unbelievers in the OT. There's nothing derogatory about that. One who does not believe is an unbeliever, and one who believes is a believer. It does not matter what the subject is. Derogatory words are critical and disrespectful and not just identifying what they are.
He is referring to an event. His statement comes from inspiration unless you do not believe that the bible was inspired or perhaps you believe only parts of it were.
The moon has nothing to do with seasons. The main function of the moon is to protect the earth from incoming debris. Seasons are dictated by the tilt of the earth’s axis not the position of the moon.
