Originally posted by Susan
The earth was created by God in 6 literal days.
The Bible says it and I believe it.
Sorry, the Bible does not say "six literal days".
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Originally posted by Susan
The earth was created by God in 6 literal days.
The Bible says it and I believe it.
Originally posted by Art Vandalay
I'm curious what others think on this one especially since I'm new to this site:
Did God create the earth in 6 - 24 hr. periods, or over a much longer period of time. Was the term "days" just a term used to break up the periods of when things were created e.g. light and dark seperated, water, etc.
What are your thoughts?
Originally posted by Sinai
1. There are those who ignore what the Bible says, or who disbelieve it or discount it. They point out that scientific measurements place the age of the universe as being between 10-20 billion years of age, with the most likely time being about 14-17 billion years of our time. They say that there is no way to reconcile the Bible to the factual evidence, and therefore they choose to ignore at least this portion of the Bible, dismissing it as a fable or a story Moses merely inserted to answer questions from an unenlightened people wandering in the wilderness. Since they tend not to be Christians or Jews and generally do not recognize the Bible as being the word of God, any biblical evidence to the contrary is generally brushed aside and discounted, or is used to support their claim that the Bible cannot really be trusted as being true.
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Here I think that you are being more than a little unfair to those that do not support your interpretation of the Bible. There are many that do not hold to any sort of literal six day creation and do not discount the spiritual messages convied by the text. They do the same thing with the six day creation that the YEC's do with all of the flat earth and geo-centric verses, look at them as not literal facts but look for a deeper meaning.
Originally posted by Art Vandalay
I'm curious what others think on this one especially since I'm new to this site:
Did God create the earth in 6 - 24 hr. periods, or over a much longer period of time. Was the term "days" just a term used to break up the periods of when things were created e.g. light and dark seperated, water, etc.
What are your thoughts?
Originally posted by Sky77
The earth is billions of years old, not 6000 years old. And it was not a literal six days. Science proves that it was billions of years.
Originally posted by SUNSTONE
God could have made the earth as old as he wanted.
t was believed that the grand canyon took millions of years, but in recent years scientist believe it took place in a matter of minutes or hours. I am not sure which, but a very fast time.
Originally posted by LewisWildermuth:
Here I think that you are being more than a little unfair to those that do not support your interpretation of the Bible. There are many that do not hold to any sort of literal six day creation and do not discount the spiritual messages convied by the text. They do the same thing with the six day creation that the YEC's do with all of the flat earth and geo-centric verses, look at them as not literal facts but look for a deeper meaning.
Originally posted by Sky77
The earth is billions of years old, not 6000 years old. And it was not a literal six days. Science proves that it was billions of years.
Originally posted by Sinai
Lewis, I did not intend to offend you by setting out the most common interpretations of what the Bible may mean by the days of creation. Which of the interpretations did you find to be "more than a little unfair to those that do not support your interpretation of the Bible"? Or does any interpretation of the Bible offend you? By the way, which interpretation was "my" interpretation (which you apparently found especially objectionable)? And do any of the theories I set out reflect your own personal opinion? If so, which one(s)? If not, what is your opinion?
Originally posted by LewisWildermuth:
Well, you tried to lump any reading that would allow for a scientific veiw of the world as people ignoring what the Bible says.
Originally posted by Wildfire:
our "church fathers" of long ago, did not feel that Enochs writings were appropriate and excluded them from the bible....If you click the word HOME at the bottom of this page, you will find his other writings.