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Also 6 days of creation, one day of rest for man. Not 6 million years of creation and 1 million years for sabbath rest.
Psalm author says: one day for man, thousand years for God. And vice versa.
There is no need to argue about the concept of time used in the Bible. We do not understand time yet. What's said in the Bible related to time MUST be right. Assume the DAY in Genesis 1 is 24 hours on God's side. That is fine. The emphasis of time in Genesis 1 is on the time sequence, not the time period.
When I read the text, I do not see an EMPHASIS on time periods or on time sequences, I see an EPHASIS on creation being caused by God alone i.e. this is what he did.
... I understand it from a scientific point of view. If the sequence of DAYs were not so arranged, then there will be major errors in the correctness of science.
So you are saying that the sequence in Genesis matches the sequence discovered by science?
Umm... what? The sequence is not "correct". It's all mixed up. Again and again the sequence in Genesis is completely mismatched from science if read literally.
Some examples, by day of "creation":
Initial State
Watery abyss
wrong - Land has always existed on Earth
1 Light (no Sun yet)
wrong - Light without sun?
2 Firmament/inverted bowl
wrong - Hebrew word shows this to be solid, but there has never been a solid dome over the earth.
3 Dry land, then All land plants
wrong - sea animals preceded land plants
4 Moon, Sun, stars and the whole universe
wrong - Those existed long before life and most of the other things made in days 1-3.
5 Aquatic Animals & Birds
wrong - Birds were not before animals on land.
6 Land animals and humans
But this is a different order than Genesis 2.
7 Rest
Just like any other primitive creation story, some things are right here and there - especially since most of these stories (as shown above) go from simpler to complex, as makes sense.
Our story isn't anywhere close to being right. The most accurate stories are by religions made up recently - like scientology. But that, of course, only means that we knew more when they made up the religion, not that scientology is right.
The point of the story is a refutation of the Babylonian creation story - which the Genesis story follows, and scholars recognized it as being a reflection of. It's a clarification by God that God is the one doing the creating, not the Babylonian gods. Taking it literally both misses God's point as well as not matching what's been found by science.
In Christ-
Papias
So you are saying that the sequence in Genesis matches the sequence discovered by science?
In Christ-
Papias
So you are saying that the sequence in Genesis matches the sequence discovered by science?
Umm... what? The sequence is not "correct". It's all mixed up. Again and again the sequence in Genesis is completely mismatched from science if read literally.
Some examples, by day of "creation":
Initial State
Watery abyss
wrong - Land has always existed on Earth
1 Light (no Sun yet)
wrong - Light without sun?
2 Firmament/inverted bowl
wrong - Hebrew word shows this to be solid, but there has never been a solid dome over the earth.
3 Dry land, then All land plants
wrong - sea animals preceded land plants
4 Moon, Sun, stars and the whole universe
wrong - Those existed long before life and most of the other things made in days 1-3.
5 Aquatic Animals & Birds
wrong - Birds were not before animals on land.
6 Land animals and humans
But this is a different order than Genesis 2.
7 Rest
Just like any other primitive creation story, some things are right here and there - especially since most of these stories (as shown above) go from simpler to complex, as makes sense.
Our story isn't anywhere close to being right. The most accurate stories are by religions made up recently - like scientology. But that, of course, only means that we knew more when they made up the religion, not that scientology is right.
The point of the story is a refutation of the Babylonian creation story - which the Genesis story follows, and scholars recognized it as being a reflection of. It's a clarification by God that God is the one doing the creating, not the Babylonian gods. Taking it literally both misses God's point as well as not matching what's been found by science.
In Christ-
Papias
Today remains the 6th Creative Day/Age in the creation of the perfect Heaven. Gen 1:28 tells of events which will NOT happen until AFTER Jesus returns and fulfills the prophecy of Gen 1:28-31. IF you don't agree, then tell us WHEN Humans were given dominion or rule over mosquitoes viruses and Angels, Gen 1:29 OR when ALL living creatures became vegetarians. Gen 1:30
You do understand that the bible says the sixth day ended and the 7th day began...
Gen 1:31 tells us the sixth day ended. "And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day". Gen 2:2 tells us God completed the 7th day...and rested on that day. Even the 10 commandments agree.
this topic is not controversial in itself . it is made controversial by MEN who do not believe .I'm after thoughts and opinions Gods 7-day creation. Did Moses right it as a narrative to the Israelites? Is Genesis all figurative language?
Thoughts and opinions on the controversial topic!
The hidden secret to understanding the entire Bible is in the first 34 verses of Genesis. This is because those verses contain the ENTIRE, COMPLETE, HISTORY of the 7 Day/Age Creation of the perfect 3rd Heaven. God wrote our History, including future events at the end of the present 6th Day, Before these events took place.
Isa 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure:
There is no hidden secret to understanding the bible. The bible tells us the sixth day of creation ended.
Not in the Hebrew tense of the following:
Gen 1:27 So God created man (Adam) in His Own Image, in the Image of God created he him; male and female created He them.
The word "created" is in Hebrew Imperfect tense, which means,
Strongs:>>The imperfect expresses an action, process or condition which is incomplete,
This is a gross misunderstanding of the Hebrew text. In biblical Hebrew there is a grammatical issue called the "vav consecutive/vav conversive" i.e. when a perfect tense is prefixed with the vav it takes on the sense of the imperfect, and when a imperfect tense is prefixed with a vav it takes on the sense of the perfect. While there is debate among Hebrew scholars about whether the yiqtol and vayiqtol forms constitute separate verb constructions, there is no debate about the change to the tense that results. This is a feature that is seen many times on every page of Genesis, and the book of Genesis could not be understood without understanding this. For example "Let there be (imperfect) light, and there was (imperfect +vav) light." This grammatical feature can be seen in almost every verse in Genesis including Ge. 1:27 "And he created (imperfect + vav)!
FYI: the second instance in Ge. 1:27 is a perfect without a vav, if understood as you suggested, we would have a conflict between the first statement and the second statement in this same verse.
Do you think this is WHY the story of the creation is so badly misunderstood? I don't study the "beliefs" of ancient Jewish theologians since God tells us HOW He hid His Truth from them and WHY. Can you tell us WHY God hid His Truth from everyone except the people of the last days before Jesus returns? Scripturally?
IOW, God is STILL creating Adam in His Image which is Spiritually in Christ. I
The perfect Heaven cannot be perfect until the entire host of Heaven is safely in Heaven. Then, God will rest (Heb-shabath-cease) from ALL of His works of creating, as Gen 2:2-3 clearly states. Can you tell us HOW to be created in Christ apart from God the Father and Spirit? Gen 1:26 AND John 14:16
and add to that the transformation is not of the created "flesh" but is of the spirit . the new body which shall clothe that NEW Christ natured creature (the born again) will be given us at his coming for it is already prepared fro us and awaits the full manifestation of the sons of God . it has nothing to do with the external material creation . it is done completed and it was perfect until made imperfect by sin .Dude, the earth and the entirety was perfect....God took a break....Then there was the fall of Adam. Remember? Later on...in the future...it will all be restored.
Are you really suggesting that every translator of Scripture throughout church history, including the ancient translations like the Greek Septuagint, the Aramaic Targums, the Syriac, the Latin Vulgate, etc..., all got this wrong, but you alone are here to give us the corrected interpretation? Over, and over, over again this verb has been translated as a perfect (which is consistent with our understanding of ancient Hebrew).
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