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Genesis, controverisal, debated the world over.
Yet so simple a child can understand it.
Did God create everyting in six literal days, or is each day an unspecified length of time.
God created everything in six literal days.
Did God start the whole thing..with the Big Bang, and then let everything evolve on its own evolutionary path, or is it to be taken literally.
It is to be taken literally -- (assuming you're talking about Genesis 1 & 2).

And this universe will end with a "big bang" -- not start with one.

2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Tough call?
Not at all.
Weigh in..and give us your comments?
Done -- :)
 
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Yet so simple a child can understand it.
Just like a child can understand Dr. Seuss.

God created everything in six literal days.
The intend was to portray 6 days, yes, but it is a story, not actual history.

It is to be taken literally -- (assuming you're talking about Genesis 1 & 2).
An Bronze/Iron Age Hebrew would not have taken it literally. They understood their own culture, while modern creationists delude themselves into thinking it was specifically written for their own culture.

And this universe will end with a "big bang" -- not start with one.
semantics.
 
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Deut 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire,
or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard,
or a necromancer.
 
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Genesis, controverisal, debated the world over.
You’re telling me.
Did God create everyting in six literal days, or is each day an unspecified length of time.
That depends on who you ask. Perhaps both.

There are some who believe the creation events in Genesis were described by the author as he observed them from the North Pole, so the evening and the morning would have been one year. Therefore, God would have created the heavens and the earth is six literal years and rested on the seventh year.
Did God start the whole thing..with the Big Bang, and then let everything evolve on its own evolutionary path, or is it to be taken literally.
If God started the whole thing then it is to be taken literally.
Tough call?
That depends on who you ask.
Weigh in..and give us your comments?
Evolution is a Biblical fact; we started off with one common ancestor and now we have evolved to over six billion.
 
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I think that everything evolved with time. God may have helped alot withthings but I think everything naturally evolved somehow.
Yes, I agree; we started off with one common ancestor and now we have evolved to over six billion.
 
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Evolution is a Biblical fact; we started off with one common ancestor and now we have evolved to over six billion.
Yup -- my ancestors came with birth certificates.
 
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Yes, I agree; we started off with one common ancestor and now we have evolved to over six billion.

haha. i see what you did. Its not just us but all life has a the SAME common ancestor the further you go back.
 
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Doveaman:
There are some who believe the creation events in Genesis were described by the author as he observed them from the North Pole,

God created everything while standing at the north pole of the earth? Is that what you are saying? I do hope it is - it's one of your best yet.
 
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God created everything while standing at the north pole of the earth? Is that what you are saying? I do hope it is - it's one of your best yet.
Isaiah 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

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Isaiah 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

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Picture's inaccurate.

"Circle" is not 3D.
 
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