Oh really? How do you know?
Genesis chapter 3, That's how I know. Let me give you a rundown as you are obviously unfamiliar with it:
* Eve is tempted by the serpent
* she eats the fruit she was told not to
* she then gives some to Adam who also eats it
* their eyes are opened and they realise their nakedness and try to cover up, and also hide from God
* God confronts them and expels them from the Garden
Nothing gradual about it.
I am happy to be able to inform you you have totally missed the point. The thing in this thread that is being looked at as gradual is the split, not how fast some left a garden! The split refers to a seperation of the physical and spiritual universes. We were left in a physical only one. The question here is how long a period did this take? See? Just like the sin of eating the fruit was to result in Adam's death, but it still took almost a thousand years to fully come to pass!!
Besides the spiritual splitting from the physical was a result of the fall, in all liklihood, but but not the fall itself.
Where is this in the Bible? Chapter and verse please...
It's not, but there is enough indications to make a good case for it. Unlike the supposed first lifeform-where is this in the bible? Or the universe contained in a hot speck sized soup?
The bible does tell us of spirits, however, and how the sun will last forever, which necessitates a change in present processes. They say it would burn out eventually, as it now works. Us living forever as well, is impossible in a physical only universe. Yes there is a veritable plethora of good biblical indications!
Why not take some time for the process?
Irrelevant, God's word clearly says he did not.
I'll take this as something you thought before I cleared up your misunderstanding, and not as ignorant rudeness.
Don't think you can wave it away that easy
It's not me waving it away, it's the Bible itself. Why are you setting yourself up against the word of God?
See above answer.
The 'seperation' was when Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden, that's what it's got to do with it.
Ha. Thanks for the silly laugh. It is certainly not the seperation I am talking about.
I see! So the garden that God especially created for Adam and Eve was in your eyes 'mickey mouse', you really do hold God's handiwork in contempt don't you. Do you think God is pleased about that?
Newsflash: Compared to the whole universe, the garden of Eden was mickey mouse in size! Nice, yes, as was the nude woman and man He put in there to till it!
The irony is dad that I'm asking you to fit your theories into the spiritual, ie the bible, and it's clear that they do not. Or at least you have some work to catch up on before they do.
No problem. I guess you never read some of the other threads where this concept was fleshed out more, so it seems big to you now. But it all fits so well, it sends a chill up the back of ones neck.