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Yes, Scriptures do have to be read using the intelligence God has given us. I don’t know why that’s so hard for people to understand.
I agree with Tampasteve, your post is offensive.
I should add, it is not that the demons are having....relations...with women. The idea is that there is a wicked process where the woman and the demon perform a ritual where she is impregnated by a normal human man and the demon possesses/takes ownership over the baby that is to be born. We see some examples in pagan literature and the old temple rights with ritual sex and rituals involving temple virgins and the "god". At least that is how I understand the idea.
By whom? And how?
The more data you have, the more you knoe how it actually works. We used to thing the earh was flat; now we know better.
I.E., those who have decided for reasons of their oewn that 2+2 must = 17.43, and will not be persuaded otherwise. Which ia to say, silly people.
However long a "day" as before there was a sun to provide a refererence point.
Years of indeterminate length.
Unfortunately, the Word of God doesn't provide technical data.
Why don’t they change it? All the evidence shows the universe is older than that.
Even before the creation of sun, moon and stars, Genesis describes each day as "morning and evening". Also, it is on the basis of the 6 days of Creation, and the 7th day on which God rested, that the weekly sabbath was instituted. If the Creation days were of indeterminate length, that would be no basis for having the Sabbath once every seven 24-hour days.
Not so. Regarding the creation of sun, moon and stars, we read these words of God:
You do realize that God himself said creation took 6 days when he gave the Israelites the 10 Commandments. Just a heads up…might not be a good idea to teach others it wasn’t 6 days if that’s what God directly said.
Except that it is not. We have visual and archaeological records much older than that. Even Egyptian and Sumerian records record dates further back and paintings preserved in caves record events in the 15K year range. Gobekli tepe is around 11,000 years old.
That seems to be a foolish motive. When the Southern Baptist Convention apologized for their former support of slavery and segregation, they were quite right praised by everyone for doing so.
I agree about your evidence statement. I take a middle of the road approach, I don't know how old the Earth is or how it all happened. However, I continue to research it and I may never have a solid answer. Both sides, YEC and OEC or Evolutionists ignore facts and evidence that don't support their hypothesis. YEC tend to ignore or use flimsy explanations to explain away evidence such as gobekli tepe, fossils, clear stratified layers of creatures from different times not mixing. OEC or Evolutionists often will ignore issues like soft tissues in dinosaur fossils, c14 in diamonds, etc.
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