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Assyrian:>>The description of the day, does not fit day three which only describes the earth being created, not the heavens.
It is ADDING information. One of the additional bits is that God also made other heavens on the 3rd Day. You can't find it in Genesis 1 because it is ADDDING information to the events of the 3rd Day NOT told about in Genesis one.
No, you are mixing up the additional bits of information with the description of when the added information is talking about.
In the day God created the heavens and the earth, tells you when. If it is talking about Genesis 1, you need to find a day that matches that description.
Assyrian:<<There are better day to fit that description, day 1, or from Gen 2:1, the whole of Genesis 1 being described as a day. Day three doesn't fit the description and I have already shown you that day three doesn't work because the reasons for there not being any plants in Genesis 2 simply don't fit day three in Genesis 2. You haven't been able to address that.
Correction: You have been unable to understand. It's probably because it goes against your religion. The plants were NOT made until AFTER man was made. Genesis 2:8-9 destroys your silly notion that the plants were made before man, by showing you the Garden was planted AFTER the man was made.
What has my 'religion' got to do with you being unable to fit the reason there were no plants in Gen 2 with the reason there were no plants in Gen 1? I agree plants were not made until after man was made in Genesis 2, however in Genesis 1, plants were made before man was made. That is why I think the stories are figurative, there is no problem with completely different orders of creation. Much better than your approach which has to rewrite Genesis 1 and still can't make the explanation about the lack of plants in Genesis 2 fit day three where you want to squeeze it in.
Aman:>>False accusation. Go back and see which one of us is using Scripture to support their views and which one of us is having a terrible time understanding the most simple of things. ie. the 3rd Day I have NO problem supporting my views Scripturally,
I don't see how claiming you support you ideas scripturally helps you with the problems I have pointed out with your numbering system for the heavens.
Assyrian:>>I have no problem understanding you claims about Gen 2:4 and the third day, I just recognise the problems trying to make those two passages fit together. But no only do you force those two passages together, you draw conclusions from that interpretation that you cannot justify from scripture either and build a whole framework of speculation around this idea about bowl shaped firmaments and multiple earths, you arbitratily pick and choose which heavens mention in Genesis are real heavens and which to dismiss as real heavens on the basis of alchemical ideas of elements you read into Genesis.
More False Accusations. In trying to bring things down to the lowest level, I sometimes say, Picture the first world as a Giant Snow Globe. You take that statement and change it into some UFO conspiracy plot and claim that I am overreaching.
If you are going to claim I make false accusations, you should try to refute what I said.
I didn't write Genesis 1:6-8 which tells us the first heaven was made the second day.
Genesis 1:6-8 says God created a firmament which he called the heavens, it doesn't say he created the
first heavens on the second day.
I didn't write Genesis 2:4 which tells us other heavens were made the third Day. I just read about it and told you. Because it doesn't fit with your religion, you attack, thus making it harder for you to understand.
It is true you didn't write Genesis 2:4 either, all the more reason you should distinguish between what it actually says and what you think it means. It does talk of a day the heavens were created. It does say they were the other heavens and it doesn't say it was the third day.
Assyrian:>>You confuse earth and world and firmament and claim firmaments were destroyed in the flood without any scriptures to back it up that refer to the flood and talk about a firmament being destroyed. Then you think because it fits this vast scheme you have thought up, it must be scriptural. I have shown you what scripture says, yet you haven't been able to provide scriptural justification for any of the ideas I have challenged you on.
Of course not. It doesn't fit with your religion of changing God's Holy Word into fables, allegory, and fiction. It destroys your beloved TOE, and shows you prophecy of what will happen to those views at the end of time. You don't like my view because it IS Scriptural, and your's is not.
Instead of just claiming your views are scriptural adn attributing my argument to my 'religion', why not address the point I make? It might even help you distinguish between your own ideas and what is actually in scripture.
Not me. I can see several ways in which to understand a passage. That is WHY I look for the Truth Scripturally, Historically, and Scientifically, to find the agreement of these Truths. I don't accept modernist, liberal, make up your own Bible, know it all, Evol fantasies.
I notice you miss out on parables, metaphors and symbols, even though I have shown you that God loves to speak to us that way, you dismiss the Father's voice as modernist, liberal, make up your own Bible, know it all, fantasies. What sort of bondage produce such fear of the voice of God in the hearts of literalists?
Assyrian:>>You still haven't explained the scriptural basis for the numbers you attach to the different heavens.
Since Genesis 1:6-8 tells me God made the
1st Heaven on the 2nd Day and Genesis 2:4 tells me He made
other Heaven
S on
the 3rd Day, and God tells me ALL the way through Scripture that
He totally and completely destroyed the 1st Heaven, and that He is going to burn the present world, I look forward to the 3rd Heaven, wherein dwelleth righteousness. I hope He made a Zillion and I can hardly wait to find out.
So the only basis your numbering system are things (highlighted in
blue) you
think scripture says, but it doesn't actually say at all? Doesn't that concern you? Isn't it a problem that you cannot tell the difference between scripture and what you read into it?
It seems the whole Bible is a mystery to you. Where do you think Jesus has gone to prepare a place for us? Where is New Jerusalem? The 3rd Heaven is the object of the Creation. The entire History of it's Creation is told in Genesis Chapter 1. I am sorry it's such a mystery to you.
If the third heaven is the object of the creation, why doesn't Genesis or Paul tell us? Is it something Paul heard while he was up there which it is forbidden to utter? If so why are you uttering it? If the entire history is in Genesis 1, why is there no mention of the third heaven or of it being the object of creation? I am happy with mystery. Even Paul understood that we only know in part, the we only see in a mirror darkly 1Cor 13:9&12.
Assyrian:>>Yes I get your goldfish bowl idea and that you think it was floating, but you still haven't addressed my point. What makes the firmament part of the world rather than something distinct from the world it contains?
According to Genesis 1:6-8 the firmament, IS the first world.It's the boundary which contains the heaven, earth, and water of Adam's world, inside it. Someone one told me it sounded like a hermetically sealed world. This would, of course, make it transportable, since it was self supporting. It would also protect it from other worlds.
In Love,
Aman
Of course you haven't answered my question. Gen 1:6-8 tells us the firmament separates the waters underneath it from the waters above it. It doesn't say it
was the first world. Even if you think it contains the first world, which Genesis doesn't say, how do you make the leap from
containing the first world to
being the first world?