You seem to be lumping me into some imaginary strawman group.
The group who seem to set more store by Genesis than they do by the Gospels? Funny, they sure seem to exist, and they sure seem to care a lot more about thigs that have little or no direct bearing on the Christian Faith than they do in the faith itself. Seriously, both Jews and Muslims accept the creation story from Genesis as being true insofar as it teaches (remember that word,
teaches, it's important) that God created the universe. But it doesn't seem to have the effect of drawing them toward the Gospel of Christ, does it? You can believe every letter in the KJV Genesis is perfectly true. and be a right infidel, but that's what the Imaginary Strawman Group of which you're evidently a member insists.
The lunacy of such a position is evident from even a cursory reading of the New Teasment. Lessee, "Go
ye into all the
world, and preach that God created the universe in six 24 hour/ 1440 minute days and he that believeth not shall be damned." Hmmmm... that sounds wrong somehow, doesn't it? Probably because it isn't there. The Apostles didn't tell their converts "Alright all you heathens, turn to and start reading the Old Testament, because if you don't believe every word of it is literally true then you may as well go back to heathening again, because believing Christ just ain't en.ough.
Right?
The bible tells us about the future world coming, His return as well as His first coming and creation. Why lobotomize your perspective.
Why insist that something is literally true when it was never intended to be? I'm sorry, mate, but the Genesis account is remarkable for the unbelievable anout of stuff it
doesn't say. Take gravity, for instance. Sticks all of God's creation together, affects everything we do, is utterly inescapable, and we know almost nothing about how it really works. The thing that the whole creation is constructd with and around, and nary a mention of it. Oops, I guess God just forgot to include that in Genesis. Or maybe that wasn't withing tor scope of what He intended to reveal. Maybe He was saving that for an account of His creation that took more than two pages, you reckon?
Maybe y'all ought to leave off adding stuff to Genesis that it doesn't say, and trying to make it into something it wasn't intended to be.
It seems to me any onlooker would see through that act and view such a person as narrow minded.
IYeah, all it takes is a bit of over-active imagination to make Genesis relevant to literally
everything. But it isn't. It's not a manual. It isn't a science book. It isn't even a proper history. It's a very brief overview of Creation. Summarize it as "In the beginning, God created everthing, in logical steps. End of.
It identifies Jesus as the one who made stuff
In the New Testament, quite explicitly.
He could if He was so inclined. He's God, after all, and thus omnipotent. Any sentence that includes the phrase "God cannot" is false. God
doesn't lie, although a good many of your lot believe that He designed the universe to
look old, which would imply dishonesty on His part, wouidn't it?
He spelled it out. Evolution was not in the mix. Any and all changes happened after the fact.
No. He created just the way He said He did whether or not you find it acceptable or believable.
He spelled it out. A=V/O wasn't in the mix..
He spelled it out. H+O2=H2O wasn't in the mix.
He spelled it out. Gravity wasn't in the mix.
He spelled it out. 299,792,458 metres per second wasn't in the mix.
Doesn't matter whether you find that acceptable or believable.
The Lord Himself created it all.
Yep. I got that from John the Gospel of John. The Jews and Muslims didn't, they only accept the OT.
The Lord Himself is coming here again soon to rule.
Gospel again.
The 'Lord Himself' is not limited to a few months on earth thousands of years ago
But He is limited to six 24-hour days.
It is not some silent onlooking partner of evolution that died for us.
But are you sure He created the elements? Genesis is silent on the subject. What day were chemical reactions created on?
No need to worry, just believe. Or not
A shame God didn't create electricity. It's amazingly useful.
All the characters at that time knew Scripture basically.
I'm sure Cornelious and his fam all learned Hebrew just so they could read the OT and convert to Christianity.
Yes we need the good news.
Are you sure? Y'all don't to set much store by it.
He that comes to God must believe that He is.
James 2:19
God said how it was made.
That He did not. He says He did it. He left it to you lot to make up rules for Him to have followed.
You simply believe it or not.
I believe His version, your's is rubbish
I never invented some sun that was here and vanished before the sun was made. That is all you.
Nope, that's the means by which yiour lot "explain" evenings and mornings when therre was no sun there to caue them. Adding to Scripture much?
No one suggested God was limited by time.
Your lot explicitly deny that Psalms 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:8 are true, instead insisting that human-invented "hours" and symbolic "evenings and mornings" inescapably restrict God to the same time constraints that limits His creatues. Another of those "God cannot..." moments againg apparerntly.
Show us how Jesus lights a moon sized city called New Jerusalem so that the sun is not needed there?
Can I use your imaginary sun for a coiuple of days? I'll give it right back,
Beliving the past and future God tells us about is not being stuck.
As long as He knows that by a Day for Him is the same as a Day for everybody else, right? No cheating just because you're God.
