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Seems to me that you have cooked your own goose. Luke is dead and gone. Why would you want to accept questionable interpretations in Luke-Acts?
How would you every know? Luke is dead. It's called using grammatical-historical hermeneutics that applies to Aristotle's works, Augustine's City of God, and the biblical documents.
I believe as the bible says, through one man, "Adam."
I still do not see your reasoning.
I guess, -57, I would quality as a theo-evo, though I would use another term. And yes, we do have a well-developed doctrine of death and sin. Death is in the world because God has the universe in a state of never-ending creative flux. Hence, the old must perish in order to bring in the new. Sin occurs because God's goal is aesthetic, to maximize beauty in the world. Beauty means complexity, and complexity means freedom, things can happen some other way. If you had a piano with just one note, nobody playing it could ever play a wrong note. If you have a piano with 88 keys, then the possibility exists of someone misusing it, banging on it, missing notes, etc. Chances for good always go with chances for evil, in other words. The fire that warms you can also kill you. Moment to moment, God provides us with creative possibilities to maximize beauty in the world. But God does not coerce or force us; God lures us. God cannot decide for us, we have to decide for ourselves. Sin occurs when we make the wrong choice, which can happen for any number of reasons. I, for one, do not believe in original sin. I do not think it is a biblical concept, to start with. And it think it is as defeatist attitude. If wee all are born evil through and through, then let's go be as evil as we can. After all, it's bad to fight against your true nature. See what I mean?
Would you explain how you make that connection? Thanks.
Hmmm, well then you may have had a correct feeling. I do not believe that the 6 days of creation were literally 6, 24 hour periods.I got that feeling from your post....
You were arguing for days equal long periods of time.....which almost always is a theo-evo argument.
Hmmm, well then you may have had a correct feeling. I do not believe that the 6 days of creation were literally 6, 24 hour periods.
To be more precise ...1,000 years AFTER the return of Jesus.As I have previously posted, we are STILL in the 6th Day (period of time) in God's Creation of the perfect Heaven. Gen 1:27 God is STILL creating mankind Spiritually in Christ and the prophecy of Gen 1:28-31 will not take place until AFTER Jesus returns.
To be more precise ...1,000 years AFTER the return of Jesus.
Isaiah 65
17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. = Revelation 21
18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.
24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.
Can you present a biblicl time line of the creation period?Hmmm, well then you may have had a correct feeling. I do not believe that the 6 days of creation were literally 6, 24 hour periods.
Genesis is not concerned with the time of creation. Therefore, I nor you can give an accurate timeline. You can try if you like.Can you present a biblicl time line of the creation period?
Genesis is not concerned with the time of creation. Therefore, I nor you can give an accurate timeline. You can try if you like.
Well, the way I understand it lately (I know I may be wrong) is that Creation took one day, "in the beginning".How did it work? Were each day an age? Did God create during a 24 hour period then wait a long time before He continued to create the next day?
Well, the way I understand it lately (I know I may be wrong) is that Creation took one day, "in the beginning".
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven. Gen 2.Were the days mentioned in Genesis just part of a longer single day?
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven. Gen 2.
This verse 4 of Genesis 2 seems to be talking about a period, not literal days. IMO, these "days" were time periods. Periods of unknown time.
No, just as they are not mentioned as a 24 hour day. Your assuming a time, God created time, why does it have to be a literal 24 hour day when Genesis shows no concern for time?Were the days mentioned in Genesis just part of a longer single day?
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