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I accept that the Bible says all life on Earth, and the Sun and the Moon were made in 7 days and Exodus 20:11 says "at least" that much in legal code about Genesis 1-2
Ex 20:
10 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD (YHWH)...
11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
That's "legal code" -- hard to bend it.
Gen 2
Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Nothing in Genesis 2:1-3 argues against the time frame God gives it in Ex 20:11
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But for "some" -- The Bible is false, fiction, fantasy, myth ... and whatever an atheist imagines in the lab is "science" - fact, never to be questioned.
If Miracles are not "true" and historic fact - then no virgin birth, no miracles of Christ, no bodily resurrection of Christ, no Christ ascends to heaven as people watch etc.
Can we really do all that "denying" as if "for Jesus"?
The benefit of denying it all - is that it may be more acceptable to atheists to declare all of it myth, fiction, never-happened-in-history. It says nothing therefore it risks nothing. You can never disprove "the nothing" that it is saying. It is bullet proof.
But is that worth it?
Is that kind of watered down Christianity "worth dying for"?
Is it going to lead to "heaven"?
Is it going to be your hope when you die?
Is it going to shield you from the 7 last plagues?
Is it going to hold up - when "we must all stand before the judgment seat of Christ" 2 Cor 5 ??
Sure the Bible has parables and symbols - but we are talking about "legal code" and actual historic accounts being washed down the drain as 'just so much fiction/myth" - is that the kind of Bible, the kind of religion that turns the world upside down? Or is it merely an "also ran" set of myths?
If there is no pristine sinless paradise Eden - then nothing to "fall from" except "the law of tooth-and-claw carnage". And who in their right mind would need a Savior to die and get us BACK to that sort of "paradise"??
Ex 20:
10 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD (YHWH)...
11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
That's "legal code" -- hard to bend it.
Gen 2
Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Nothing in Genesis 2:1-3 argues against the time frame God gives it in Ex 20:11
=====================================
But for "some" -- The Bible is false, fiction, fantasy, myth ... and whatever an atheist imagines in the lab is "science" - fact, never to be questioned.
If Miracles are not "true" and historic fact - then no virgin birth, no miracles of Christ, no bodily resurrection of Christ, no Christ ascends to heaven as people watch etc.
Can we really do all that "denying" as if "for Jesus"?
The benefit of denying it all - is that it may be more acceptable to atheists to declare all of it myth, fiction, never-happened-in-history. It says nothing therefore it risks nothing. You can never disprove "the nothing" that it is saying. It is bullet proof.
But is that worth it?
Is that kind of watered down Christianity "worth dying for"?
Is it going to lead to "heaven"?
Is it going to be your hope when you die?
Is it going to shield you from the 7 last plagues?
Is it going to hold up - when "we must all stand before the judgment seat of Christ" 2 Cor 5 ??
Sure the Bible has parables and symbols - but we are talking about "legal code" and actual historic accounts being washed down the drain as 'just so much fiction/myth" - is that the kind of Bible, the kind of religion that turns the world upside down? Or is it merely an "also ran" set of myths?
If there is no pristine sinless paradise Eden - then nothing to "fall from" except "the law of tooth-and-claw carnage". And who in their right mind would need a Savior to die and get us BACK to that sort of "paradise"??
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